Cage of Evil is a low-budget 1960 crime film starring Ron Foster and Patricia Blair.[1][2]

Cage of Evil
Directed byEdward L. Cahn
Screenplay byOrville H. Hampton
Based onstory by Orville H. Hampton and Alexander Richards
Produced byEdward Small (executive)
Robert E. Kent
StarringRon Foster
Patricia Blair
Harp McGuire
CinematographyMaury Gertsman
Edited byMichael Minth (as Michael J. Minth)
Grant Whytock
Music byPaul Sawtell
Bert Shefter
Production
company
Robert E. Kent Productions (as Zenith Pictures)
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • July 1960 (1960-07) (US)
Running time
70 mins
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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Scott Harper is a frustrated police detective who is constantly passed over for promotion. When he is assigned to gain the confidence of Holly, the girlfriend of a robbery suspect, the couple fall in love and then plot to murder Holly's boyfriend and run off to Mexico with the loot.

Cast

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Reception

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In a contemporary review for the New York Daily News, critic Maxine Dowling called Cage of Evil "a bitter and contrived tale...It's an uninteresting, slowly paced melodrama that does nothing for anyone concerned, least of all our much maligned police."[3]

The New York Post commented that "performances are better than fair," and that the film "is a shoot-it-out opus with little surprise. The audience knows from the beginning that detective Ron Foster is unhappy with his lot. Much work, no promotion. We wait for him, on the trail of a diamond thief, to go over to the other side. This he does, not only because he envies the spoils, but because he has fallen for the crook's moll, Pat Blair. They get theirs!"[4]

TV Guide wrote that "it's not bad for grade-B crime drama."[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Foster in Film". Los Angeles Times. July 27, 1960. p. 24.
  2. ^ "Cage of Evil". BFI. Archived from the original on 2012-07-15.
  3. ^ Dowling, Maxine (1960-06-30). "A Sequel to 'Hercules' on For Brooklyn". Daily News. p. 71.
  4. ^ "'Cage of Evil' Opens at Loew's Metropolitan." New York Post, 30 June 1960.
  5. ^ "Cage Of Evil". TVGuide.com.
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