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Caged (1950)


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Title: Caged [IMDb]


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Release date: May 19, 1950
Studio: Warner Brothers
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDB genres: crime, drama, film-noir
BYU holdings: https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6769957

Synopsis [hide]

A naive nineteen year old widow becomes coarsened and cynical when she is sent to a woman's prison and is exposed to hardened criminals and sadistic guards.

Plot keywords (from IMDb): birth in prison, bribery, cafeteria, childbirth, claustrophobia, corruption, cruelty, death, decadence, desperation, discovering one is pregnant, expectant mother, felon, female warden, head shaving, husband wife relationship, jail, jail cell, killed with a fork, lesbian, lesbianism, medical examination, nice girl in prison, obese woman, physical abuse, pregnancy, pregnancy and incarceration, pregnant prisoner, pregnant woman smoking, premature baby, premature birth, prison, prison matron, prison nurse, prostitute, sadism, sadist, shaved head, women's prison, death of pet

Cast and Crew

ActorRole
Eleanor ParkerMarie Allen
Agnes MooreheadRuth Benton
Ellen CorbyEmma Barber
Hope EmersonEvelyn Harper
Betty GardeKitty Stark
Jan SterlingJeta Kovsky
Lee PatrickElvira Powell
Olive DeeringJune Roberts
Jane DarwellIsolation Matron
Gertrude MichaelGeorgia Harrison
Sheila MacRaeHelen

John Cromwell: director

Max Steiner: composer

Murray Cutter: orchestrator


Film Statistics

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Film duration: 1:36:24
Music duration: 21:26:28
Pages in score: 160
Total themes: 34
Themes with variants: 15
Total variants: 43
Total gestures: 2
Total underscoring sections: 10
Total underscoring duration: 04:05:26
Total instances: 97

Themes

Name Uses Variants
Marie 12 9
Molto Expressivo 8 7
Caged 7 4
Water Dripping 7 2
June 5 4
Marie 2 5 3
Mrs. Benton 5 4
Isolation Ward 3 2
Prison 3 1
Prison Alarm 3 1
Swimmy 3 2
Wailing 3 1
Crying 2 1
June and Marie 2 1
Lullaby 2 0
Signature 2 0
Train Whistle Hallucination 2 0
Agitato 1 0
Harper 1 0
Harper's Death 1 0
Hysteria 1 0
Madness 1 0
Nursery 1 0
Police Van 1 0
She Runs 1 0

Other films borrowed from:

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)

Combinations

Name Uses
Wailing + Train Whistle Hallucination 1
Water Dripping + Caged 1
Water Dripping + Foxtrot 1
Water Dripping + Marie 2 1

Source Music

Name Uses
Bird in a Cage 2
Foxtrot 1
Harper Whistles 1
He Leadeth Me 1
Jingle Bells 1
Rock of Ages 1

Gestures

Name
Falling
Prisoners get out

Underscoring

Name
Dark
Dramatic
Subtle
Tense