Caged Heat
Roger Corman: The King of Cult
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1h 19m
Directed by Jonathan Demme | 80 mins | 1974
Among Corman’s hall-of-fame stable of writers and directors was Demme, who offers a more humorous (but still titillating) take on the women-in-prison genre here in his directorial debut. The inmates fend off the abuses by the warden (Barbara Steele) and her crew, who deploy shock treatment, until the hot-house environment ignites with an action-packed escape plan.
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