Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This movie is probably the best example of the "women in prison" genre. It's a delightful combination of noir, camp and drama. Eleanor Parker gives an excellent performance. Her slow transformation from a naive young woman to a hardened prisoner was fascinating and very realistic. This is especially evident at the end of the film when there is the photographic comparison between her character when she enters prison to when she leaves. I also like that the film does not end on a positive note. It ends bittersweet. On one hand, it's good that she's out, on the other hand, you know that Agnes Moorehead's character has correctly predicted Parker's destiny. Moorehead's prison superintendent character was excellent and is what keeps the film from being over the top. She remains the calm, collected heart of the movie. She's a nice contrast from Hope Emerson's bonkers matron. If Moorehead and Emerson's respective characters had both been over the top nasty, then this film would have definitely been more campy. Likewise, if both characters had been like Moorehead's, then the film would be unrealistic. Emerson's matron was so delightfully horrid that you actually cheer for the Kitty Stark character in the dramatic cafeteria scene. Lee Patrick is such a fantastic character actress and she can play so many different types of characters very well. What's delightful about many of her characterizations is that no matter how refined her character appears on the outside, there's always a layer of trashiness. The possible exception to this from the films of hers I've seen is The Maltese Falcon. In this film, she's known as "The Vice Queen" who runs a shoplifting syndicate and ends up having to serve a short sentence in the prison. Ladies They Talk About is another favorite women in prison film of mine, but it is more of a country club prison than the one Eleanor Parker ends up in.

The "women in prison" genre is usually associated with exploitation movies, but it turns out that there have been serious movies in this number. John Cromwell's Academy Award-nominated "Caged" focuses on a naive young woman (Eleanor Parker) put in jail with a collection of tough gals, forcing her to become equally tough. While it doesn't share the brutality of "Brubaker" or "The Shawshank Redemption", it still has some intense scenes. And as the end of the movie makes clear, the prison experience has almost certainly made the protagonist more prone to crime (as often happens in real life).In addition to Parker, the cast includes Agnes Moorehead (Endora on "Bewitched"), Hope Emerson (the strongwoman who hoisted Spencer Tracy's character in "Adam's Rib") and Jane Darwell (the matriarch in "The Grapes of Wrath"). The director is the father of James Cromwell.

Well made film prison film and a must see for anyone that likes Elenor Parker, who is good, but Agnes Moorehead and Hope Emerson are even better. Emerson (nominated for an Oscar) is brutal as she commands the pregnant Marie Allen (Elenor Parker) to scrub the prison floor when she learns that Allen is unable to pay her way into a decent prison job. The use of period-contextual prison jargon makes this film extremely interesting. The one-sheet from this film is fantastic!!!! It features Marie Allen's fellow inmates: Claire, a queen of the prison vice-ring, Smoochie - a street-lamp gal, and Emma, the prison matron's patsy. Finally, similar to the ending in Johnny Apollo (1940), and to quote the one-sheet, "She was part-good before-She's ALL BAD NOW!"

Spoilers. Observations. Opinions. Eleanor Parker is a young, pretty inmate. She is also naive. How does she survive? Parker was later in The Sound of Music, as fiancé of the captain. In Music, she is older, jaded and not exciting. This time, she isn't the ingenue. That position is taken by Julie Andrews. Andrews also got the captain. The matron is old, huge and aggressive. She is mean and vindictive, and she rules with an iron boxing glove. She seems jealous of the inmates. The swaggering blonde woman is creepy. She appears very mannish, and is rolling in cash. She wants to buy people, especially Eleanor Parker. There are strong homosexual innuendoes in this character. Eleanor Parker all of a sudden becomes jaded, hardened and is no longer the young innocent.A woman gets thrown into the hole by the matron. This woman gets beaten to a pulp (is this off-camera?) while in that dungeon. She ran all the rackets before the swaggering dame showed up. The woman gets out of the hole, and is speechless and dumbfounded. She has extreme rage. She is boiling over. All of a sudden in the mess hall, she uses a dinner fork to stab the ugly old matron. There is a prison riot. All the beds get turned over, and everything else in the dormitory gets thrown into the melee. The woman are irate. Meanwhile, Eleanor Parker has found a kitten outdoors. She tries to hide it in the dormitory, but during the riot it gets its life ended. This is terrible. It was a very cuddly, darling little kitty. This film was smashing, interesting and quite sad. These women were thrown from the outside world into a very harsh environment.