There’s an intimacy throughout that suggests a life without men might not be so bad if it was allowed to happen on their own terms.

A grim, unrelieved study of cause and effect, it adds up to very drab entertainment, unleavened with any measure of escapism.

There is much in Caged that rings true, but unfortunately there is too much that appears to be contrived.

Long before the “women’s prison film” got overrun by sadistic wardens, leering male guards, and lesbian trysts among the inmates -- thus becoming the exclusive property of drive-ins and grindhouses -- Warner Bros. offered this hard-hitting drama.