Much more uplifting is this remake of Eleanor Parker's 1950 hit "Caged." Shirley Knight, a victim of the justice system, goes in kind and emerges the same way at film's end. On the other hand, prison life led Parker from being sweet and innocent to hard-boiled. Of course, the circumstances are different from the two films.
Constance Ford steals the show as an embittered prisoner who loses her child in a tragic accident in the jail. She goes berserk and takes hostages to gain her demands.
The idea that young children up to the age of 3 could stay with their imprisoned mothers was a bit too much to fathom. There is an interesting performance by Andrew Duggan as the warden, who goes from viciousness as his counterpart Hope Emerson did in "Caged," to nice guy, thanks for his love for inmate Knight, only to be influential in having her paroled turned down as she was planning to go back east. This plus the Ford tragedy sets the motion for the crisis in the prison.
Note how these films always depict the inmates of being abused by prison officials.
Constance Ford steals the show as an embittered prisoner who loses her child in a tragic accident in the jail. She goes berserk and takes hostages to gain her demands.
The idea that young children up to the age of 3 could stay with their imprisoned mothers was a bit too much to fathom. There is an interesting performance by Andrew Duggan as the warden, who goes from viciousness as his counterpart Hope Emerson did in "Caged," to nice guy, thanks for his love for inmate Knight, only to be influential in having her paroled turned down as she was planning to go back east. This plus the Ford tragedy sets the motion for the crisis in the prison.
Note how these films always depict the inmates of being abused by prison officials.