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Caged
Directed by
John Cromwell
Approved
1950
1h 36m
Drama
,
Crime
,
and more
7.6
50%
82%
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A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-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?
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Cast of Caged
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)
Shirley Dunstead
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)
Caged Ratings & Reviews
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Deemed harsh in 1950, Cromwell's melodrama about women in prison has lost its edge but the acting of Agnes Moorehead and Hope Emerson, as a monstrously facist matron, is good; the film still offers valuable lesson about how life in prison makes criminals
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Ranked as the best women-in-prison film ever made, but even if this is so it still doesn't make it very good.
Variety
Variety Staff
A grim, unrelieved study of cause and effect, it adds up to very drab entertainment, unleavened with any measure of escapism.
New York Times
Thomas M. Pryor
There is much in Caged that rings true, but unfortunately there is too much that appears to be contrived.
Movieline
Kevin Hennessey
An unintentionally hilarious women-in-prison expose.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Long before the "women's prison film" got overrun by sadistic wardens, leering male guards, and lesbian trysts among the inmates -- thus becoming the exclusive property of drive-ins and grindhouses -- Warner Bros. offered this hard-hitting drama.
Autostraddle
Drew Gregory
There's an intimacy throughout that suggests a life without men might not be so bad if it was allowed to happen on their own terms.
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