Directed by:
Jonathan DemmeScreenplay:
Jonathan DemmeCinematography:
Tak FujimotoComposer:
John CaleCast:
Roberta Collins, Barbara Steele, George Armitage, Carmen Argenziano, Cheryl Smith, Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Joe Viola, Leslie Otis, Mike Shack (more)Plots(1)
Jonathan Demme made his directorial debut with this irreverent, politically-charged entry in the 1970s women-in-prison film genre. It stars Roberta Collins, Ella Reid, and Rainbeux Smith as sex-starved inmates who befriend newcomer Jackie (Erica Gavin) at a Connorville women's prison. Their daily routine involves lots of showering, catfights, and drag performances, interrupted by occasional electro-shock treatments and other "corrective therapies" courtesy of wheelchair-bound warden McQueen (Euro-horror icon Barbara Steele). Eventually the girls escape, go on a crime spree, and then return to bust out their sisters in a ferocious hail of bullets. Demme delivers all the requisite nudity and perversion but adds a lot more as well, including bizarre dream sequences (McQueen's CABARET-style bathroom performance is a highlight), feminism, elaborate tracking shots, documentary-style realism, and even some rudimentary character development. Caged Heat manages to be in on its own joke while still delivering the payload of gratuitous flesh that fans of this sort of film expect. (New Concorde Home Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Roberta Collins
USA
Best movies:
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Vendetta (1986)
Death Wish II (1982)
Barbara Steele
UK
Best movies:
8½ (1963)
Young Törless (1966)
For Love and Gold (1966)
George Armitage
Best movies:
Gas-s-s-s (1970)
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Caged Heat (1974)
Carmen Argenziano
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Crazy Mama (1975)
Cheryl Smith
USA
Best movies:
Up in Smoke (1978)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Drum (1976)
Juanita Brown
Best movies:
Foxy Brown (1974)
Caged Heat (1974)
Erica Gavin
USA
Best movies:
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Vixen! (1968)
Caged Heat (1974)
Joe Viola
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)
Leslie Otis
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)
Mike Shack
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)
Toby Carr Rafelson
USA
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)
Irene Stokes
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)
Street Style (2004)
Somebody Help Me (2007)
Cindy Cale
USA
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)
Warren Miller
Best movies:
Philadelphia (1993)
Crazy Mama (1975)
Beloved (1998)
Ella Reid
USA
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)
Mickey Fox
USA
Best movies:
Crazy Mama (1975)
California Split (1974)
Big Bad Mama (1974)
John Aprea
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Game (1997)
Crystin Sinclaire
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)
Eaten Alive (1976)
Ruby (1977)
Cynthia Songé
USA
Best movies:
Steel (1979)
Crazy Mama (1975)
Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! (2009)
Desiree Cousteau
USA
Best movies:
Caged Heat (1974)