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Caged (1950)

Directed by John Cromwell

Drama

Most recently watched by AllAboutSteve, sleestakk

Overview

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

Length 96 minutes

Actors

Eleanor Parker | Agnes Moorehead | Ellen Corby | Hope Emerson | Betty Garde | Jan Sterling | Lee Patrick | Olive Deering | Jane Darwell | Gertrude Michael | Sheila MacRae | Gertrude Astor | George Baxter | Guy Beach | Don Beddoe | Gail Bonney | Lovyss Bradley | Ralph Brooks | Jean Calhoun | Pauline Creasman | Marjorie Crossland | Jane Crowley | Evelyn Dockson | Pauline Drake | Marlo Dwyer | Helen Eby-Rock | Virginia Engels | Edith Evanson | Helen Gereghty | Grayce Hampton | Grace Hayes | Gertrude Hoffmann | Taylor Holmes | Esther Howard | Bill Hunter | Hazel Keener | Doris Kemper | Ann Kunde | Gracille LaVinder | Marie Melesh | Tina Menard | Charles Meredith | Joan Miller | Frances Morris | Helen Mowery | Zon Murray | Eva Nelson | Joyce Newhard | Ezelle Poule | Gladys Roach | Yvonne Rob | Naomi Robison | Lynn Sherman | Queenie Smith | Helen Spring | Eileen Stevens | Amzie Strickland | Sheila Stuart | Nita Talbot | Wanda Tynan | Ann Tyrrell | Glen Walters | Harlan Warde | June Whipple | Doris Whitney | Marjorie Wood | Peggy Wynne

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
11/12/2011TVBroadcastTV6.5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Happened to be awake post-surgery and caught this on TCM at the beginning.

If not the first, definitely one of the earliest of the women-in-prison movies, though much tamer than any of the ‘70s or ‘80s era movies that would gain notoriety.

Definitely quite cynical for its time, and a pretty damning indictment of the women’s prison system.

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