I'm watching this movie, Caged from 1950 in B&W. It stars Eleanor Parker and some of the toughest women ever seen on the screen. She's imprisoned as an accessory in a robbery and her innocence is gradually destroyed. A matron named Evelyn Harper shaves off her hair as punishment. There's lots of tough talk, screaming, sobbing and pleading.
What we need right now is a good women in prison movie. Natalie Portman can play the Parker role. Wait. She has just returned from the hospital, a blank woman, emotionless, but somewhere in there a tough, enraged creature throbs. I sense there will be revenge coming. B&W sure adds an edge to everything. Uh oh! The mean matron has just been stabbed by Parker!
"Kindly omit the flowers," is all she says.
This is so much better than Superman.
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