Lady in a Cage

1964

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 64% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 4148 4.1K

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Plot summary

A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.

Director

Walter Grauman Photo
Walter Grauman

Top cast

James Caan Photo
James Caan as Randall Simpson O'Connell
Scatman Crothers Photo
Scatman Crothers as Junkyard Proprietor's Assistant
Rafael Campos Photo
Rafael Campos as Essie
Ann Sothern Photo
Ann Sothern as Sade
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869.82 MB
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1 hr 34 min
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869.42 MB
1280*714
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1.75 GB
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1 hr 34 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by John Chard 5 / 10

Cage Rage! Lady in a Cage is directed

Cage Rage! Lady in a Cage is directed by Walter Grauman and written by Luther Davis. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Jeff Corey, James Caan, Ann Sothern, Jennifer Billingsley and Rafael Campos. Music is by Paul Glass and cinematography by Lee Garmes. If you trawl for reviews of this film you will find pretty much all the cinematic words used to describe a non big budgeted mainstream film that many love. Re: Cult, Camp, Schlock and etc, what ultimately transpires with Lady in a Cage is a film that everybody should understand why some love and some hate it. One film lovers camp schlocky classic is another one's irritatingly over acted bore. I'm close to being in the latter camp. It start off so well, the Paramount logo in cage stripes, a jarring score, a dead dog in the road and superb opening credits that segue into in your face fast cuts. Then story pitches wealthy Cornelia Hilyard as being trapped in a elevator cage in her home (she's recovering from a broken hip see), being all alone she's forced to use the alarm system, which brings into play unsavoury and unstable characters to blight and torment home and woman both. The big message beating at the pic's black heart is so heavily handled by the makers it ends up boorish, rendering shock factor as zero. Come the mid-point the overacting on show by all - including the once magnificent de Havilland - is almost unwatchable. In fact much of it ends up being laughable, so as one is meant to feel repulsion at the stink infecting the human race, one is instead pondering the implausibilities of it all. There's a scene where Cornelia should simply push her chief tormentor out of the cage, but no!, the over cooked screenplay wants to cram in a load more daft human foibles before reaching its finale. We even have a case where two characters in the play, one a key player in proceedings, don't have their fates revealed. Not in a crafty cliffhanger way, but in a lazy forgetful piece of hackdom. You have to say its effective because it draws you in with its unpleasantness - both as an observation on the human condition and as poor film making - so much so you have to stay with it to the end. Perhaps that is job done, then? But really it's one that this viewer personally could not recommend at all. 5/10
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Reviewed by helpless_dancer 7 / 10

Gritty, bizarre, not for the faint at heart

Excellent drama concerning 3 psychotic hooligans, a drunk, a hustler, and a fence and his gang all vying for a house full of booty. The terrified home owner is trapped and must try to survive the onslaught as well as keep her sanity. Highly emotional presentation with great acting by the 3 young thugs, particularly Caan's bit as the insane pack leader. A must see.
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