Lady in a Cage

Help! Please, help! I'm trapped in a small, private elevator!

"Is there a Satan bomb??!"

(I suppose this movie counts).

A trashy camp classic with James Caan making his screen debut trying in vain to channel Brando. Plus the closeted gay son.

It's probably one of the most misanthropic movies ever made.

Love the imitation Saul Bass credits at the beginning.

You can see how this home invasion movie predates stuff like The Intruders.

I loved it, sexy in all the most inappropriate ways! The son was a pioneering Datalounger...

Sounds interesting. I'll check it out.

Amy Sedaris did a take-off of it in an ep of her series just a few weeks ago.

Look for James Caan with his full blanket of chest hair.

James Caan is HOT AS FUCK in this.

And yeah, this movie wears its misanthropy like a badge of honor, right from the opening credits to the conclusion.

I know I did once love this film.

And I did start to watch it when it appeared on Hulu, but I only got through the opening credits, which are blistering with the misanthropy cited upthread. I guess in 2020 I need something a little kinder. It's been a rough six months.

With ANN SOTHERN as “Sade”

Glad I never had to resort to such...lowbrow entertainment in my career.

It really is kind of a sour movie, but it still stands up as harrowing.

ha ha re: Sedaris

As for the movie -- it is pretty graphic, even for today. That car scene at the end...

Apparently it almost kept Olivia from doing "Hush, Hush..." because she felt she had been down that road already.

Olivia finally decides to take on the home intruders. “Stone Age, here I come!”

I believe that James Caan used hair straightener for this role. It made his very tight curly hair look like straw. I bet it was a product like one that was popular back in the 1960's called Curl Free. I tried it myself when I was a teen and had the same strange looking results. Fortunately he didn't use it on his curly chest hair. I think his body would have been nicer if he had hit the weights for several months before filming. I also wondered where did Olivia poop when she was trapped in that elevator?

^ Your final film and legacy, dear.

I could have sworn this thread would be about Vivienne Westwood.

I thought this movies was about illegal aliens from Mexico.

r17 The Witches is a good little thriller with a great British cast about a subject that hadn't been done at the time (1966). Lady in a Cage is typical of the hagsploitation era, easily camped like Baby Jane and Sweet Charlotte but much worse than those two.

What were you thinking, Livvy?

“Do NOT see it alone!”

“It is, perhaps, not even for the strong!” The pompous, speechy writing that was so popular in the 50s and 60s in Hollywood — and it was up on screen too, boy just in ad copy. It actually ruins much the The Twilight Zone for me.

boy=not

Both Joan and Olivia were horribl people.

Olivia was just better at hiding it.

Jump to 00:15 to see our own Catherine Zeta do her version. She was much to beautiful to play ODH. Those wicked robbers would surely have molested such a beauty.

Much too*

How long was she in the cage?

I second the question of where she did her business..

The lady of the house would never have something so unsightly as a bowel movement! She likely finished a colonic irrigation that morning and was light and unencumbered when she got into her cage.

It was one whole day I think.

CZJ's bit from LADY doesn't seem much different from Sedaris' .

I'm waiting for the Trump campaign to use the trailer for this film for one of its ads.

Joan dear, THE WITCHES is one of Hammer's more lame and dull pieces of fodder, only of interest for Kay Walsh (who blows you off the screen) and, for fans of THE INNOCENTS, the last screen appearance of Martin Stephens - superb in the earlier film but somewhat awkward here in adolescence. Even Tallulah's DIE! DIE! MY DARLING is better.

^^Olivia

Farewell, Livie.

I'm going to miss her on DL so much!

Gone, but never forgotten.

Sexy and silly in all the right ways

Who can take her place with the snarky So Young? Norman Lloyd, 106, isn't famous enough. '

I guess it's Betty Shite now, although I'd prefer Angie Lansbury

Now she's a "Lady in a Box."

I think she is coming back.

I think we better all watch out.

I remember our local TV Guide called it 'sordid'.

There is a drinking game, every time Ann Sothern hides behind something you take a drink.

I remember Olivia guesting on "Donahue" back in the 1970s and an audience member asking her about "Lady in a Cage".

Olivia said she received nearly as many comments about it as she did about "Gone With the Wind".