Lady In A Cage
Two-time Academy Award-winner Olivia de Havilland stars in a suspenseful shocker that also features future Oscar-nominee James Caan in his first major film role. Alone in her residence over a sweltering holiday weekend, a widow (de Havilland) is accidentally trapped in her home elevator during a power failure. Her meticulous, well-organized world is shattered as the elevator, stalled nine feet above the floor, becomes a claustrophobic torture chamber - a cage. Unable to escape, her situation becomes desperate when the emergency alarm attracts a swarm of terrifying intruders - a drunken derelict (Jeff Corey) and his boozy prostitute friend (Ann Sothern), as well as a trio of young delinquents (Caan, Rafael Campos, Jennifer Billingsley) who embark on an orgy of wanton vandalism and sadistic brutality that culminates in murder.
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it had a unique and strange quality - tbird
a lady is helplessly trapped in her elevator.some very nasty folks enter her place just to steal. they have no conscience and no logic to their cruel ways.i thought the film was interesting, and it had its share of suspense.it is the lack of logic in the characters that make the film strong.often people are looking for a reason why people do evil things.perhaps many times, there is none.a very scary prospect to consider.Yikes - bbryon1
This movie was very different. Lady trapped in her home elevator. The weirdest group of people enter her home who couldn't care less about her being trapped, but are there for all her valuables. Then she finds out something about her son that she didn't know. Another overbearing mother who wants her son to stay with her forever.Somebody heeeeeelp !!! - RSEE
I found myself talking or shouting at the TV many times during this movie, or squeezing my armrests.
Yes, this a stresssssful movie! I loved it.
The though of a movie about somebody trapped in an elevator for most of the running time sounds like it will be as boring as a dial tone, but this film was excellent.
Funny how people didn't pay any more attention to alarm systems 40 years ago than they do today...
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it had a unique and strange quality - tbird
a lady is helplessly trapped in her elevator.some very nasty folks enter her place just to steal. they have no conscience and no logic to their cruel ways.i thought the film was interesting, and it had its share of suspense.it is the lack of logic in the characters ...Yikes - bbryon1
This movie was very different. Lady trapped in her home elevator. The weirdest group of people enter her home who couldn't care less about her being trapped, but are there for all her valuables. Then she finds out something about her son that she didn't know. ...Somebody heeeeeelp !!! - RSEE
I found myself talking or shouting at the TV many times during this movie, or squeezing my armrests.
Yes, this a stresssssful movie! I loved it.
The though of a movie about somebody trapped in an elevator for most of the running time sounds like ...