Caged (1950)

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Title:	Caged [IMDb]	Film Structure Tag Cloud
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

Actor	Role
Eleanor Parker	Marie Allen
Agnes Moorehead	Ruth Benton
Ellen Corby	Emma Barber
Hope Emerson	Evelyn Harper
Betty Garde	Kitty Stark
Jan Sterling	Jeta Kovsky
Lee Patrick	Elvira Powell
Olive Deering	June Roberts
Jane Darwell	Isolation Matron
Gertrude Michael	Georgia Harrison
Sheila MacRae	Helen
John Cromwell: director Max Steiner: composer Murray Cutter: orchestrator

Film Statistics

Stats
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