Caged (1950)

Brilliant! Caged is deservedly one of the best films of 1950. The film features a mostly female cast including superb performances by Eleanor Parker in the lead, Agnes Moorehead, and Hope Emerson. Directed by John Cromwell.

Parker plays a recent addition to a women's prison where Moorehead is the sympathetic administrative warden, and Emerson plays Evelyn Harper, the antagonistic matron. I would place my bets on Harper in a match-up against Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.



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Great acting, direction, script, and cinematography. Parker and Emerson were nominated for Oscars.

Here's the trailer: