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“okay, okay.” I MUST watch ‘Caged’ now. Agnes Moorehead is always a good watch…even if it is in a prison movie; and I definately want to see the hangin’ scene. Hangin’ scenes are always classic. I’m not that picky when it comes to older movies. The fact that they’re old always wins me over. I enjoy browsing through your site and reading what you think about them.
What’s going on in that last shot? Is Our Heroine taking off her blouse?
(Or is that unseemly?)
Why, you see every cheerful detail:
They learned to levitate?
That would be cheerful!
Not to be superficial, but, the long timers seem, somewhat well worn. To the point that I actually winced when I saw the images. Perhaps from the Isle of Misfit Women Convicts?
What, does that make me a bad person?
“She was in the car while her husband help up a store.”
Man, those good Samaritan laws can be TOUGH!
OK, we got the shower scene but, what about the necessary to the plot cat fight?
Instead, I’ll go back and watch MST3K #112 (Untamed Youth -with Mamie Van Dorn “singing” and eating dog food) and #601 (Girl’s Town – with Mamie Van Dorn, Paul Anka and two-fisted nuns)
Both films feature beaucoup catfights.
That’s “Van Doren”. Must be coffee on my “e” key.
Actually, I think there’s a surprising amount of lesbian content for a movie made in 1950, when the Production Code was still in full force. When the new queen bee, played by Lee Patrick (a tough cookie here, but later in Billie Burke mode as Leo G. Carroll’s wife on the “Topper” TV series), spots young Marie (played by Eleanor Parker, later the Baroness in “The Sound of Music”), she asks, “Who’s that cute trick?” And throughout the rest of the film, her intentions toward the cute trick are quite clear.
thanks hpoulter, now I have Dr. Forrester saying “Mamie Van Hooters” stuck in my head.
I guess that is not so bad. Better than am earworm of very young Paul Anka singing the “Girls Town” theme. Dammit, why I do that?
roger h (bgbear) Says:
May 5th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
thanks hpoulter, now I have Dr. Forrester saying “Mamie Van Hooters” stuck in my head.
I guess that is not so bad. Better than am earworm of very young Paul Anka singing the “Girls Town” theme. Dammit, why I do that?
Confound YOU!
Thank goodness I don’t know the “Girls Town” theme, or I’d be cursing you both!
Re: GardenStater – The “Girls Town Theme”:
I think it goes:
It’s Gir-r-r-rls’ Town…
Gir-r-rl’s Town…
to the Tune of “The Love Boat.”
Awww, criminy, not really. But I thought you might like to get that tune in your head for a few days.
I realize it is the way she is holding it, but it also looks like you could argue for a mag-within-a-mag in the Midnight Romance shot. So maybe she was looking at something else after all…
Sorry, but “Reform School Girls” with Wendy O. Williams is still my favorite womens prison film. I’m just different that way.
Ah-HAH! Thank you, IMDB! I *Knew* that human Kewpie-doll in the middle was Jan Sterling, but I just couldn’t remember her name.
I wonder if they ever made a movie in which all the inmates were guilty, miserable, unrepentant thugs, the administration was well-meaning, and the guards merely bored with these coarse, violent, one-dimensional fools.
There are a few that come close (Boys Town, Knock On Any Door, They Made Me A Criminal) but mostly due to the belief that Poverty Bred Crime. The fellas are on the level, see? Aw, I ain’t makin’ excuses but well, you can see for yerself that all these guys had some tough breaks and that don’t make ‘em bad now, does it? Why, sure, all they need is a boxer or a two fisted priest or a crusadin’ mouthpiece to believe in ‘em and they’ll be right as rain by the last reel. You’ll see.
@lanczos:
Jerk. Thanks a lot.
While Mr. Lileks plays the Star Trek connection with old films, I play the Twilight Zone connection. His Dr. Boyce is my three armed Martian.
Anyway, the woman who looks like Joe E. Brown is Betty Garde. She was Lois Nettleton’s neighbor, Mrs. Bronson in “The Midnight Sun” episode of Twilight Zone.
She was never on Trek.
That shower scene made me think of Mike’s line from the MST3K episode “Terror From the Year 5000″ when the prim love interest is changing into her swimming togs behind a bush: “Sorry teenage boys of the 50′s, this will have to do.”
Sorry Mr. Lilleks, I think you do have a favorite WBB movie and that would be: “I Want to Live!”
In ’74 in college I went to see Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, which had had a still in Playboy’s Annual Sex in the Cinema issue. My roommate had a policy of never walking out on a film, so I sat in the lobby for most of this terrible film, but I count it as a film I saw. I think it qualifies as a WBB, and it has plenty of nakedness if you don’t mind your nudity with whips and chains and bad acting screams.
You know what to do:
www(dot)youtube(dot)com(slash)watch?v=jpzY4YCUZH8
TZ connection, I don’t see Barney Phillips in the credits (three-eyed martian) and don’t forget Agnes Moorehead in “The Invaders” some of her best acting ever.
Here is the little I remember:
Listen to me girl,
Mind you’re Ps & Qs,
or soon you’ll be singing the Girls Town Blues. . .
Oops, hopefull this thread is dead, it should be “your Ps & Qs”
Just pretend BHO said it and forget it
Caught ya.
roger h -
Barney Phillips was the three eyed Venusian. John Hoyt was the three armed Martian and I only bring him up because every time JL sees him in an old movie, he makes the Dr. Boyce connection.
I was about seven years old when I saw just one scene from this film: the matron shaves the heroine bald just for yucks and throws her in the “hole.” Scarred for life.
When I saw this I thought… what sort of guy gets his kicks from women prison flicks.
Then I noticed that I have at least three such movies in my DVD/decaying VHS collection. Oops.
I have got to see this film! Thanks Lileks, you are swell.