OMFG !!!!!!! The film classic Lady In A Cage is now on Amazon Prime!!!!

Poor Olivia should not have deigned to appear in this trash.

True stars prefer privacy to indignity.

[quote] Lady de Havilland

Oh dear.

This film did not age well.

[Quote] Lady de Havilland Oh dear.

Oh dear.

Luise, your performance as a Chinese peasant in The Good Earth didn't age well, either. I'd call you a bitch but I never swear!

I *finally* saw this a few years back. Not up for a re-view. Just too unpleasant.

R4, are you also R2?

no, r7.

I unironically liked this film when I saw it on TCM years ago. It's not the lesboriffic CAGED but it's pretty good.

You got Lee Garmes, a Westmore... what more do you need?

I think it might be a must watch quarantine movie. Ya know, for anyone scared by street violence. I mean.........Ahem, literal street violence.

I just need that phone to ring! Call me up!!! Call me up!!!!

I'm with R2, and can't see why R4 oh-deared him.

R10, you also got a young James Caan shirtless through much of the movie. His character is feral, his acting is wildly over-the-top (thus right at home in this film), and he walks with his shoulders weirdly hunched, but still, it's young James Caan. Special bonus: This was in the period when he was straightening his hair, which looks about a million times better than the frizzy mop he had from the '70s onward.

[quote] I'm with R2, and can't see why R4 oh-deared him

I think the reason is because under the UK honors system and nobility, Olivia de Havilland was a “dame” rather than a “lady”. The male equivalents are, respectively, “sir” and “lord”.

I just watched her in an episode of Love Boat on the Love Boat channel on Pluto TV

Thanks R14. I wrote Oh dear since OP called her Lady de Havilland but she is properly Dame Olivia. I still don’t get what transgression I perpetrated that caused R4 to oh dear my oh dear.

Enough, r16!

Exactly, r17.

[quote]—Miss Norma Shearer

You're one to talk. Not everyone got parts on their back, dear.

Released by Paramount in 1964 it's something of a landmark. One of the first home invasion films and possibly the most unpleasant film yet released by a major studio.. No one is spared. Humanity is seen as selfish, animalistic and indifferent. Even the lady of the title is seen as selfish and the cause of her son's unhappiness. The film is allegorical as the "animals" roam free the human is caged.

[quote] home invasion films

See 'The Small Voice' (1948) with the lovely Valerie Hobson, cute James Donald and brutish Howard Keel.

And 'The Desperate Hours' (1955) by William Wyler

"You're one to talk. Not everyone got parts on their back, dear" — Mrs. Steele

At least I wasn't on my knees.

The Small Voice and The Desperate Hours are home invasion films as well as traditional crime films different in tone and effect from Lady in the Cage which deals with random, meaningless mayhem for mayhem's sake and comes closer to being something akin to a John Waters film as the trio has no real aim or purpose. It's more modern and is a precursor to films such as Funny Games.

I was surprised at how James Caan's characters kept referring to the main character's son as gay. Was this the first time a character was referred to as gay in such a blatant way on film?

Rafael Campos, who played the other hoodlum, was a hot Dominican very briefly married to Dinah Washington. He did quite a few movies, but always typecast, and as he got older, when he played those parts, he just seemed to not give a shit. I bet he had a sweet uncut pinga though. He got his start in "The Blackboard Jungle" and "Trial" where he was the one accused of killing a young girl.

The earliest home invasion flick I know is BLIND ALLEY (39). Remade as THE DARK PAST in 1948 with a starrier cast, including William Holden.

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (48) could qualify at a stretch.

Meaningless mayhem for mayhems sake! The first time I saw this, I made it a double feature with Motorpsycho!!

The part where they taunt her for not acknowledging her son is gay is pretty horrific.

R17 & R18 you may go fuck yourselves. He’s right.

Motorpsycho!

r2 / r12 / r16 / r29 why are you such a fragile cunt? You clearly are the freak in all of this. Take a Xanax and stop acting like a pussy. Sheeeeesh!

[Quote] I'm with [R2], and can't see why [R4] oh-deared him.

YOU ARE, r2 so of course you're "with him." Troll.

R25, this is Rafael Campos on the right, along with some gratuitous shirtless James Caan.

It's hard to believe that Campos was 28 years old at the time and four years older than Caan.

Girls, girls, you're *all* tedious.

The three younger actors are like Dean, Wood and Mineo in "Rebel Without a Cause". It seems odd that a Hispanic kid would follow two Caucasians around. Rafael was Mineo's sidekick in "Tonka" but they did not get along.

And Ann Sothern as Sade

You’ve seen Tonka, R35? Is it any good? I watched a trailer with some friends. After the extended silence in the room, I kind of gave it up.

Miss Sothern deserved better.

All you fat bitches infighting amongst yourselves in here has triggered me to compose a poem aloud about our false “God,” electricity.

Wasn't Tonka the film where Sal Mineo plays a Native american and has no lines?