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Caged Heat

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Caged Heat
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R,1hr 25min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1974
Director:
Jonathan Demme
Distributor:
New Concorde
Starring:
John Aprea, Carmen Argenziano, Amy Barrett  ...more
Synopsis: Considered the quintessential "girls in prison" flick of the 1970s, novice director Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat is set in a hellish American woman's penitentiary run by vicious, wheelchair-bound Barbara Steele. Statuesque convict Erica Gavin is forced to undergo horrible (but legal) tortures when she is falsely accused of trying to escape. Gavin and fellow con Juanita Brown decide to make a real break, but return to prison to rescue a friend who is about to be lobotomized by the sadistic prison doctor. ... Full Synopsis
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Robert Firsching, AMG Review
The award-winning director of Silence of the Lambs began his career, as have many of today's hottest filmmakers, working for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. This film, produced by Demme's wife Evelyn Purcell, is one of the best of the tacky women's prison subgenre. Erica Gavin is sent up the river on a trumped-up charge, only to go through the usual degradations at the hands of her fellow prisoners ... Full Review
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Juanita Brown
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Erica Gavin
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