2 Peril Camp in Review Lives Classics Volume DVD Classics Volume Women Michael Maupin in Peril Women Armistead Camp Talk Cult Cult Tolliver Talk 2 by DVD by Outdoor amateur

Its the logical offspring of Warners social injustice pictures of the Depression years. For about ten years after What Ever Happened to Baby Jane an exploitation market flourished in older actresses coming back to play mature women especially in bloody horror films. The resulting embarrassing freak shows became guilty favorites for those in the know to wonder at the decay of Hollywood sex symbols or to find psychological correlations between the stars real lives and the characters they played.Warners wisely open their threedisc set with a much earlier movie in a different exploitation specialty the Women In Prison or WIP film. After all the picture garnered three Oscar nominations. If some of it now seems funny the effect is no different than watching Double Indemnity with a modern audience. They returned to the screen for fun mortgage money or perhaps to nurse the delusion that they still belonged in the spotlight Olivia de Havilland Tallulah Bankhead Ann Sothern. As the latter two latesixties offerings are truly terrible the earlier film serves to compensate its camp values are undeniable yet it functions beautifully as a drama and could easily be a top title in a Film Noir collection.Caged is so good that it doesnt need the camp label which at first makes its placement in this set seem an error. Caged is the now familiar WIP story of the innocent transformed into a hardened dame by a cruel penal system. Caged is frequently compared with Olivia de Havillands celebrated turn in The Snake Pit but has a much harder edge. 133 flat full frame available individually at 14.98 Directed by John Cromwell Tito Davison Freddie FrancisReviewed by Glenn EricksonHere is where the Camp in Warners new Cult Camp series comes into play Two of the Cult Camp Classics Volume 2 Women in Peril selections feature major female stars on the desperation end of their careers. Young Marie Allen Eleanor Parker is railroaded into a 5 to 15year stretch by the same kind of rotten luck that befell Paul Muni in the great I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Eleanor Parkers performance grabs us from the start when rough guards drag the terrified Marie from a prison wagon They may laugh at the hardboiled dialogue but when its over they applaud out of pure respect.