These three cat-scratchics bring you high heels and high danger! Collection includes The Big Cube Caged and Trog featuring Joan Crawford in her last on-screen performance. Runtime: 287 min Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating:NR Age:0853Product DescriptionCult Camp Classics Vol. 2 - Women in Peril (DVD)
]]>Amazon.comSecond 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 le