Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Caged (1950)

Caged (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I'm On The Last Lap

Bad news from the infirmary nurse (Eileen Stevens) as new inmate Marie (Eleanor Parker) is led to isolation where she meets another nurse (Jane Darwell) and a dying roommate (June Whipple) in John Cromwell's Caged, 1950.

Caged (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Being Here Is The Punishment

Agnes Moorehead hasn’t been introduced but we infer she’s the warden, receiving panicked, pregnant 19-year old, probably wrongly-convicted widow Marie (Eleanor Parker), offering wisdom, in Warner Bros.’ and producer Jerry Wald’s Caged, 1950, from screenwriter Viriginia Kellog’s original research.

Caged (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Presents For My Girls

Fellow inmate Ann (Lynn Sherman) introduces new girl Marie (Eleanor Parker) to the all-kinds-of-scary matron Harper (Hope Emerson), in John Cromwell's prison drama Caged, 1950.

Caged (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Pile Out You Tramps!

Opening sequence is in the wagon carrying Marie (Eleanor Parker), Emma (Ellen Corby) and friends to prison, from director John Cromwell's seminal women-in-prison drama Caged, 1950.

Caged (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Hype The New Fish

New in the women's prison, Marie (Eleanor Parker) gets support from Kitty (Betty Garde), Smoochie (Jan Sterling), Claire (Joan Miller) and wacky Georgia (Gertrude Michael) in John Cromwell's Caged, 1950.