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Caged 1950

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 96 min

genre: drama

theme: prison

director: John Cromwell

Score: 5 / 10

Caged is a 1950 American women-in-prison film noir directed by John Cromwell and starring Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Betty Garde, Hope Emerson, and Ellen Corby. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Plot

A married 19-year-old, Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker), is sent to prison after a botched armed robbery attempt with her equally young husband, Tom, who is killed. While receiving her initial prison physical, she learns that she is two months pregnant.

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author	Bernard C. Schoenfeld Virginia Kellogg
director	John Cromwell
editor	Owen Marks
genre	drama
keywords	armed robbery baby back to school hear incarceration of women isolated kill married melee mentally unstable parole parole officer police commissioner prison life sadistic sadomasochism shoplift solitary confinement step-father strip survive women\'s prison
musicBy	Max Steiner
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Story Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
producer	Jerry Wald
publisher	Warner Bros.
theme	film noir noir prison women in prison