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Caged (1950)
Directed by John Cromwell
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Overview
Caged tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into a hardened convict.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Ellen Corby | Lee Patrick | Eleanor Parker | Jane Darwell | Agnes Moorehead | Taylor Holmes | Edith Evanson | Jan Sterling | Don Beddoe | Nita Talbot | Hope Emerson | Betty Garde | Esther Howard | Olive Deering | Gertrude Michael | Sheila MacRae | Gertrude Hoffmann | Queenie Smith | Hazel Keener | Grace Hayes | Sheila Stuart
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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