Lady in a Cage | | Cast : | Olivia de Havilland, James Caan | | Director : | Walter Grauman | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Black & White, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | July 08, 1964 | | DVD Released Date : | March 29, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | NR (Not Rated) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | April 06, 2005 | | Summary | Intense Campy Fun | Content
 | I love this movie. It's sort of like a whacked-out version of "Panic Room." The DVD presentation looks very good. But come on Paramount, when are you going to start living up to the standards set by Warner Bros.? This film is crying out for a campy commentary, or a featurette, a trailer, something. We are all glad that this is finally available on DVD at a resonable price and that it looks so darn good, but start including Enhanced Content on your DVD releases. Please!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | April 06, 2005 | | Summary | LADY IN A CAGE - One of the great camp shockers of the 60's | Content
| At least four films deserve to be enshrined in the "camp shocker" hall of fame: "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (Davis and Crawford), "Die! Die! My Darling" (Tallulah Bankhead), "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (Davis and De Havilland), and the just-released-on-DVD, "Lady in a Cage," with Olivia de Havilland. The cage is a private, in-home elevator. De Havilland is trapped between floors during a power outage, and a number of low-life characters enter her home to steal, terrorize and make our caged lady's life a living hell. The young James Caan is one of the really bad guys, and the wonderful Ann Southern is one of the exploiters who ends up being terrorized by Caan and company. The titles are 60's brilliant and the film score does the suspense proud. De Havilland is over-the-top hammy in many scenes and quite good in others; that's the beauty of these shockers when they have serious performers of a certain age and era doing a little Grand Guinol number. This one runs a tight 94 minutes and the time really flies, which is a tribute to the skill of director Walter Grauman. Here's a wonderful black and white camp shocker that is quite creepy in retrospect. De Havilland, who is around 88 today, is the only surviving female lead of the four films I mentioned above. I would have loved to see Davis, Crawford, Bankhead and De Havilland on Inside the Actor's Studio discussing these masterpieces of the macabre, because they truly don't make actresses or films like these any longer. Give "Lady in a Cage" a try. You'll be glad you did. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 30, 2005 | | Summary | HOLIDAY OF TERROR..... | Content
| On a sweltering July 4th, a careless power failure traps a wealthy woman recovering from a broken hip in her home elevator. Her son has just left for the holiday and when she sounds the alarm, she unwittingly summons the scum of the earth as the town celebrates outside. First a wino gets in eager to rob her house and sell the goods to a fence, then he brings his hooker friend in to help him stay sober long enough to pull off the job. But three psycho hoods crash the party and terrorize everyone while the trapped woman is forced to watch helplessly. Olivia de Havilland plays the woman at the mercy of mindless thugs James Caan, Rafael Campos and a spaced out Jennifer Billingsly. Jeff Corey is the wino and Ann Sothern is the hooker. All are excellent in this truly gripping suspense thriller. As if watching the mayhem weren't enough, a letter from her son is found by the thugs and read aloud---revealing the true nature of their relationship as Caan mercilessly taunts her with it. Strong stuff from 1964 and surprisingly rough. Filmed in b&w, this just adds to the starkness of the story which takes place in bright daylight. As much a commentary on the dehumanization of society as a thriller, one watches as the animals run amok and the human is caged. The ending is pretty graphic for the time as well. Worth watching and very recommended. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 28, 2004 | | Summary | Suspense and surprise | Content
| I love this movie. I discovered it on t.v. at 3 am back in the early 90's.
If you like Olivia DeHavilland and James Caan(a young), and love suspense movies this is a great movie.
I can't wait to add this to my dvd collection.
This movie is about an old lady that has to use an elevator to get up and down her stairs. She has a slight problem when the elevator gets stuck and is unable to get anyone's attention that will help. All she gets is some unwelcome help. If you enjoyed 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane', 'Single White Female' or 'Hand that Rocks the Cradle', this is the movie for you.
All Olivia DeHavilland fans should also watch the movie that one her an Oscar, 'The Heiress'.
Why is it so hard to find some of these movies on dvd? |
| Rating | | | Date | October 28, 2003 | | Summary | The ultimate Late Night Movie ! ! ! | Content
| I love this film... On one hand its quite brilliantly done... on the other hand, its morbidly sick and twisted. It is both a classic thriller, yet campy at the same time too - - ... and although the "angry juvenile deliquent", "slobbering whino", "'50s mother" and "knife wielding latino" stereotypes date it ridiculously, the disonant music and camera shots and music turn a "Donna Reed" house into the ultimate modern world gone mad... Clever "Ed Woodian" type use of stock footage, mixed in with some interesting camera shots and catchy dialogue make this a highly under-rated cult classic... The opening, seemingly disjointed sequences also let you know you're in for something quite different, though by the end they all pull together... though I missed that point the first few times I saw the film. - - Bizarre at times, yet told with the coolness of an Alfred Hitchcock film (or atleast an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents" or "the Twilight Zone") this is one film that can endure endless rewatches.... I LOVE IT ! If you like this film, one other immediately comes to mind : Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ! ! ! |
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