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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391145226
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Sales Rank: 66418
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 1950
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/26/2007
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Second in a series of four box sets, Cult Camp Classics 2: Women In Peril includes three films in which victimized female protagonists provide the viewer hours of entertainment. Watching Caged, Trog, and The Big Cube consecutively provides lots of laughs, but also makes one wonder what exactly satisfies about this archetype while ladies struggle through run-ins with drug dealers, hardened prison matrons, and a hairy cave-dwelling monster, in these cases. Each indicative of the decades in which they were made, these films reiterate how cinematic narratives have long capitalized on the viewer's hope that woman will either escape or get revenge. Caged, considered the first women's prison film, follows Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker), who is imprisoned for acquiescing to her husband's desire to rob a store. Prison cell bar shadows cast across the screen, and repeated close-ups of Allen's horrified face, make Caged a fine example of film noir. With little to laugh at, viewer sympathy mounts as Allen acclimatizes to the rough prison life, and conversely, disappointment sets in when one sees her innocence slipping away. One comes to hate the evil prison matron, Evelyn Harper (Hope Emerson), who believes in iron-thumb treatment. Caged is a rare example in its genre in which sexual exploitation is not at the core of the film. Trog and The Big Cube are less tragic, more schlocky, and fascinating as a pair due their gorgeous stars, Lana Turner and Joan Crawford, cast late in their careers. Trog is a hairy, pre-human cave dweller รก la Planet of the Apes, wreaking havoc once unleashed by an anthropologist played by the ravishing Crawford. The Big Cube's greatest assets are the scenes depicting acid trips induced by Johnny (George Chakiris), a medical student who cooks LSD to dose sexy girls and enemies. Psychedelic lighting freak-outs overpower the drama regarding young hipster Lisa's (Karin Mossberg) step-mom, Adriana, (Lana Turner) who is driven mad by Johnny so he can marry Lisa for her hefty inheritance. Although none of these films will scare a female viewer, they offer three wonderful renditions of fear-based roles mastered by some of the sexiest women in Hollywood. --Trinie Dalton
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Buy it for Trog!
I can hardly believe this movie had escaped me for all my cult movie loving years--until now! Well, I can die happy!
La Crawford acts her brains out in every ridiculous scene in Trog. She manages to utilize the many devices at her disposal (as usual) to conjure up a character who is smarter and more in control than anyone else in the room. It must have been written into her contracts that she have access to the latest technological gadgets and gizmos--she ... Read More
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What a collection! I would probably not buy any one of these DVDs separately, but as a set at about $9 each on Amazon, who could resist?!? You get Joan Crawford's final film, "Trog" (1970), Lana Turner's psychedelic camp classic "The Big Cube" (1969), and the best of the bunch, "Caged" (1950).
"Trog" is probably the worst of the bunch, but still lots of fun. What a great movie to watch like Mystery Science Theater and have your guests make commentary! The movie starts out in a cheap set ... Read More
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What more can you ask for?! Lana and Joan! We're talkin' about some SERIOUS peril and hard to find as well.
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Miss Crawford's last picture! Doesn't that count for something? Joan plays Dr. Brockton, in "Trog." This is her last picture. And despite what you may have heard about it, Joan is actually very good in it. No matter what, Joan was always the consummate professional.
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I am not sure if "Women in Jeopardy" really qualifies as a genre of film, but it is certainly is an appropriate label for certain movies. In Warner Brothers second volume of Cult Camp Classics, we are given three depictions of Women in Peril. As I often seem to note with watching these sorts of movies, they can only be cult classics because they would never qualify as true classics.
Actually, the first movie, Caged, is really good. It is an early women-in-prison movie, with Eleanor Parker ... Read More
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