Caged

CrimeDrama
Overview : A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Budget : Na
language : en
Runtime : 96 min
Release Date : 1950-05-19
Imdb ID : tt0042296
Status : Released

Cast

Eleanor Parker
Marie Allen

Agnes Moorehead
Ruth Benton

Ellen Corby
Emma Barber

Hope Emerson
Evelyn Harper

Betty Garde
Kitty Stark

Jan Sterling
Jeta "Smoochie" Kovsky

Lee Patrick
Elvira Powell

Olive Deering
June Roberts

Jane Darwell
Isolation Matron

Gertrude Michael
Georgia Harrison

Sheila MacRae
Helen

Gertrude Astor
Inmate (uncredited)

George Baxter
Jeffries (uncredited)

Guy Beach
Mr. Cooper (uncredited)

Don Beddoe
Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)

Gail Bonney
Inmate (uncredited)

Lovyss Bradley
Inmate (uncredited)

Ralph Brooks
Man in a Car (uncredited)

Jean Calhoun
Inmate (uncredited)

Claudia Cauldwell
Inmate (uncredited)

Pauline Creasman
Inmate (uncredited)

Marjorie Crossland
Katie "Cassie" Cassidy (uncredited)

Jane Crowley
Matron (uncredited)

Evelyn Dockson
Matron (uncredited)

Pauline Drake
Doctor's Wife (uncredited)

Marlo Dwyer
Julie O'Brien (uncredited)

Helen Eby-Rock
Inmate (uncredited)

Virginia Engels
Inmate (uncredited)

Barbara Esback
Matron (uncredited)

Edith Evanson
Miss Barker (uncredited)

Helen Gereghty
Inmate (uncredited)

Grayce Hampton
Woman (uncredited)

Grace Hayes
Mugging Matron (uncredited)

Frances Henderson
Woman (uncredited)

Gertrude Hoffmann
Millie Lewis (uncredited)

Taylor Holmes
Sen. Ted Donnolly (uncredited)

Esther Howard
Grace (uncredited)

Bill Hunter
Guard (uncredited)

Hazel Keener
Matron (uncredited)

Doris Kemper
Inmate (uncredited)

Ann Kunde
Inmate (uncredited)

Margaret Lambert
Inmate (uncredited)

Gracille LaVinder
Visiting Room Matron (uncredited)

Marie Melesh
Inmate (uncredited)

Tina Menard
Inmate (uncredited)

Charles Meredith
Parole Board Chairman (uncredited)

Joan Miller
Claire Devlin (uncredited)

Frances Morris
Mrs. Foley (uncredited)

Helen Mowery
Woman (uncredited)

Zon Murray
Prison Guard (voice) (uncredited)

Eva Nelson
Inmate (uncredited)

Joyce Newhard
Inmate (uncredited)

Rosemary O'Neil
Inmate (uncredited)

Ezelle Poule
Inmate (uncredited)

Yvonne Rob
Elaine (uncredited)

Naomi Robison
Hattie (uncredited)

Carole Shannon
Inmate (uncredited)

Lynn Sherman
Ann (uncredited)

Queenie Smith
Marie's Mother (uncredited)

Helen Spring
Woman (uncredited)

Eileen Stevens
Infirmary Nurse (uncredited)

Amzie Strickland
Inmate (uncredited)

Sheila Stuart
Velma Washington (uncredited)

Nita Talbot
Inmate (uncredited)

Wanda Tynan
Meta (uncredited)

Ann Tyrrell
Edna (uncredited)

Gladys Varden
Inmate (uncredited)

Glen Walters
Inmate (uncredited)

Harlan Warde
Dr. Ashton (uncredited)

June Whipple
Ada (uncredited)

Doris Whitney
Woman Visitor (uncredited)

Marjorie Wood
Matron (uncredited)

Peggy Wynne
Lottie (uncredited)

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Reviews

John Chard
Prisoner 93850 Caged is directed by John Cromwell and adapted by Virginia Kellogg from her own story Women Without men that was co-written with Bernard C. Schoenfeld. It stars Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Betty Garde and Hope Emerson. Music is by Max Steiner and cinematography by Carl E. Guthrie. Teenager Marie Allen (Parker) is sent to a women’s prison after being found guilty of being an accomplice in a robbery, a robbery that saw her husband killed. She’s also pregnant and will have to have the child in the prison. Struggling to come to terms with her incarceration and the tough regime overseen by brutish warden Harper (Emerson), Marie comes to realise that she may have to go through a major character transformation to survive. Unfairly tagged as camp and sounding on synopsis like what would become a cheese laden staple of women’s prison movies, Caged is actually rather powerful film making. The deconstruction and subsequent transformation of a young woman who clearly doesn’t belong behind those walls, is bleakly told. The prison is a foreboding place, the lady character’s reactions to their surroundings and way of life are emotionally charged. Frank in its portrayal of prison life back then, but sly with its insinuations of sexual proclivities and criminal doings on the inside, the writing has a crafty edge most befitting the sombre tone that pervades the picture. Parker leads off the list of great performances to bring the drama to life, and with Guthrie’s black and white photography superbly emphasising claustrophobia and pungent emotional turmoil, it rounds out as a thoroughly gripping piece of film. With an ending that’s appropriately biting as well. 7.5/10