DVD 96 IMDB 8.0

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Crime, Drama

Eleanor Parker	Marie Allen
Ellen Corby	Emma Barber
Jan Sterling	Smoochie
Hope Emerson	Evelyn Harper
Betty Garde	Kitty Stark
Agnes Moorehead	Ruth Benton
Lee Patrick	Elvira Powell
Olive Deering	June
Jane Darwell	Isolation Matron
Gertrude Michael	Georgia Harrison
Olive Carey
Davison Clark	Doctor
George Baxter	Jeffries
Guy Beach	Mr. Cooper
Don Beddoe	Commissioner Walker
Gail Bonney	Inmate
Lovyss Bradley	Inmate
Jean Calhoun	Inmate
Claudia Cauldwell	Inmate
Pauline Creasman	Inmate

Director	John Cromwell
Producer	Jerry Weld; Jerry Wald
Writer	Virginia Kellogg; Bernard C. Schoenfeld

The Story of a Women's Prison Today!

"Will she come out woman or wildcat?" trumpeted ads for this women-behind-bars classic. There's no question about how the film itself came out. Using familiar but sharply played characters to bring home its reform-minded message, Caged remains a pivotal genre classic.

Best Actress Academy Award nominee Eleanor Parker portrays the inmate whose transformation from sunny innocent to tight-lipped, worldwise con provides its focus . As the tyrannical floor matron, Best Supporting Actress nominee Hope Emerson is 6'2" of Grade-A malevolence. And an earnest prison superintendent, a sour lifer, a street-lamp tramp, a patsy, a society dame and other types add atmosphere to an Oscar-nominated script co-writer Virginia Kellogg researched while posing on the inside as a convict.