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Caged Heat (1974)
In director Jonathan Demme's (The
Silence of the Lambs (1991)) early trashy cult women-in-prison
flick, and campy exploitation classic produced by B-movie king
Roger Corman:
- the early scene of full-cavity searches (allegedly
for drugs) upon entry to the prison - when the prison's demented,
perverted and twisted Dr. Randolph (Warren Miller) warned of the
inmates' last chance to surrender "concealed" drugs,
including calisthenics (deep knee bends)
- the character of Superintendent McQueen (scream queen
veteran Barbara Steele) - the wheelchair-bound, repressive, perverse
and butch, semi-lesbian prison warden with an English accent
- the inmates' amateur improv skit-show with dirty bawdy
humor
- the three dream sequences (1) Lavelle (Cheryl Rainbeaux),
(2) Jackie (Erica Gavin), and (3) McQueen
- the scene of implied masturbation before revealing
that inmate Pandora (Ella Reid) was playing dice: "Come on,
baby, come on! Hmm, mmm"
- various attractive and empowered cell-block prisoners,
including Erica Gavin as Jackie (sentenced for drug possession to "no
less than ten, and no more than forty years"), Roberta Collins
(as Belle) and Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith (as Lavelle), often glimpsed
in shower scenes, or in various undressing situations
Requisite Shower and Strip Scenes
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- with expected exploitative scenes of sadistic torture,
tongue-in-cheek humor, dirty catfights, rebellion and the requisite
prison escape, etc.
- Dr. Randolph's rape of drugged prisoners or performance
of invasive CPT (corrective physical therapy) including brain surgery
with a power drill - who took Polaroid pictures of one naked conquest,
kleptomaniac Belle Tyson
Exploitation of Belle by Dr. Randolph
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- the concluding shoot-out after taking the warden
and doctor prisoner - ending with their deaths during the getaway
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Warden McQueen
Pandora Playing Dice!
Shootout - Death of Supt. McQueen
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