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“CAGED!” follows Marie Allen (Parker), a young widower, after she is sent to prison for her involvement in a robbery. She slowly hardens from the attitudes and hostility the other female inmates show her. Caged is a movie about women in prison. When it opens, we see new arrivals getting off a bus. One of them is played by Eleanor Parker, the protagonist, innocent of the crime for which she was convicted.

In a movie where every character feels like a lesbian, Elvira is the most undeniable. She enters the prison with a powerful gait and even more powerful resources. She doesn’t need to flirt —. Once in prison, Marie is torn between Ruth Benton, the sympathetic warden Agnes Moorehead , Evelyn Harper, the sadistic matron Hope Emerson , and Kitty Stark, the older prisoner who wants to recruit her into a life of crime Betty Garde. Instead the film embraces a mix of melodrama and realism, capturing the cruelty — and ineffectiveness — of prisons. Marie goes from a desperate kid to a committed criminal, the system creating what it claims to want to stop.

Caged is a American film noir [2] directed by John Cromwell and starring Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Betty Garde, Hope Emerson, and Ellen Corby. It was adapted by Virginia Kellogg from the story "Women Without Men" by Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld. We still had Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo, who gave us immortal androgyny— there was no one who could shatter the silence, and ceremoniously ring the bells out in the open. We had to create that worship ourselves through iconography and a variety of sublime, convention-smashing signals. For those of us who knew how to look in the dark corners, right under your nose, corners, or should I say coded corners.

Caged: Directed by John Cromwell. With Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson. A gentle, naive, pregnant year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?. The full list of participants can be found here. Nineteen-year-old Marie Allen Eleanor Parker is going to be a guest in the Grey Bar Hotel for about one to fifteen years because she happened to be in the company of her husband while he was relieving a gas station of forty bucks through rather unlawful means. To add insult to injury, Mr.

The women-in-prison flick CAGED! was based on notes and observations made by writer Virginia Kellogg who spent time undercover in the US prison system. Once in prison, Marie is torn between Ruth Benton, the sympathetic warden Agnes Moorehead , Evelyn Harper, the sadistic matron Hope Emerson , and Kitty Stark, the older prisoner who wants to recruit her into a life of crime Betty Garde. Instead the film embraces a mix of melodrama and realism, capturing the cruelty — and ineffectiveness — of prisons. Marie goes from a desperate kid to a committed criminal, the system creating what it claims to want to stop.

When the options are be beholden to the state — or, if lucky, to a man — or live a luxurious life of crime, who wouldn’t become a lesbian?. .