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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 331210" data-attributes="member: 57984">LADY IN A CAGE (1964) with Olivia de Havilland and the recently defunct James Caan; it&#039;s a mildly interesting meltdown-of-the-inner-cities-in-the-mid-&#039;60s entry, a film attempting to be edgy and shocking and perversely &quot;real&quot; in the way some pictures were doing from around &#039;63/&#039;64 onward.I like the movie a little bit, and find its &quot;distasteful&quot; elements well within the realm of cinematic acceptability (the dead dog hit by a car at the beginning, and Caan&#039;s head squished under a tire at the end were nice touches). My main issue is that the film starts to drag as all these held-captive-against-their-wishes entries (like DIE! DIE! MY DARLING and even WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? tend to do.Olivia hesitated to replace Crawford in HUSH ... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE because of the somewhat down-market results of LADY IN A CAGE. But I think her performance as the denial-ridden, overbearing mother whose excessive affection and French parfum turned her son gay and, hence, suicidal was impressively reprehensible and yet sympathetic.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f2/02/1b/f2021b55194d95f1bcf4467ab203655d--olivia-de-havilland-the-cage.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 855px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 331210, member: 57984"] LADY IN A CAGE (1964) with Olivia de Havilland and the recently defunct James Caan; it's a mildly interesting meltdown-of-the-inner-cities-in-the-mid-'60s entry, a film attempting to be edgy and shocking and perversely "real" in the way some pictures were doing from around '63/'64 onward. I like the movie a little bit, and find its "distasteful" elements well within the realm of cinematic acceptability (the dead dog hit by a car at the beginning, and Caan's head squished under a tire at the end were nice touches). My main issue is that the film starts to drag as all these held-captive-against-their-wishes entries (like DIE! DIE! MY DARLING and even WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? tend to do. Olivia hesitated to replace Crawford in HUSH ... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE because of the somewhat down-market results of LADY IN A CAGE. But I think her performance as the denial-ridden, overbearing mother whose excessive affection and French parfum turned her son gay and, hence, suicidal was impressively reprehensible and yet sympathetic. [IMG width="855px"]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f2/02/1b/f2021b55194d95f1bcf4467ab203655d--olivia-de-havilland-the-cage.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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