Directed by John Cromwell • 1950 • United States
Starring Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby

When nineteen-year-old Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker) arrives at a women’s prison already pregnant, she finds herself at the center of a war for her soul waged between a reform-minded warden (Agnes Moorehead) and a sadistic matron (Hope Emerson). While working on the story that would give birth to CAGED, writer Virginia Kellogg reportedly went undercover inside a women’s prison in her quest for truth, resulting in one of the most most startling and influential entries in the women-behind-bars subgenre, driven by powerhouse performances from Parker and Emerson.