Description:Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker), a 19-year-old newly-wed, is sent to prison after a botched armed robbery attempt with her equally young husband, Tom, who is killed.
While receiving her prison physical, Marie finds out that she is two months pregnant. Despite the hardships she is put through under Matron Evelyn Harper (Hope Emerson),Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker), a 19-year-old newly-wed, is sent to prison after a botched armed robbery attempt with her equally young husband, Tom, who is killed.
While receiving her prison physical, Marie finds out that she is two months pregnant. Despite the hardships she is put through under Matron Evelyn Harper (Hope Emerson), Marie gives birth to a healthy baby and wants to temporarily grant full custody to her mother. The intent is to get the baby back after she is released. However, her mother informs Marie that her callous step-father has decided that under no circumstances will he allow the baby into his house.
The prison forces Marie to permanently give the child up for adoption and never sees her baby again. After her exposure to hardened criminals and sadistic prison guards, Marie leaves prison a hardened woman with debts to the criminals who helped get her released from jail.... (more)(less)
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Contrary to what it appears to be, this is not one of those vulgar women-in-prison exploitation flicks. This is a grim and veracious look at the shabby and demeaning conditions that women had (and still have) to put up with in jail, and it features one of the greatest female performances of all time from the extraordinary Eleanor Parker. I didn't even know the who hell she even was until I watched Caged, but I surely will never forget her now.
She plays a vulnerable and innocent 19 year o"
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One of the most unheralded great beauties of classic cinema is Eleanor Parker. A good (but not great) actress and nominated for her role as a frightened inmate in "Caged" who in time, grew herself a temper. Not too convincing though, but enough for Oscar to take heed. It was a much coveted role for dramatic actresses at the time and Parker was fortunate enough to have landed it.
The prison here, deemed as shocking is a five-star hotel compared to say, the prison-sexploitation movies of th"
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