Cage of Evil

1960 film

July 1960 (1960-07) (US)

Running time

70 minsCountryUSALanguageEnglish

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

Plot

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

Ronald Foster as Scott Harper
Patricia Blair as Holly Taylor (billed as Pat Blair)
Harp McGuire as Murray Kearns
John Maxwell as Don Melrose
Preston Hanson as Tom Colton
Doug Henderson as Barney
Hugh Sanders as Martin Bender
Helen Kleeb as Mrs. Melton
Robert Shayne as Victor Delmar
Owen Bush as Sgt. Ray Dean
Ted Knight as Dan Ivers
Howard McLeod as Kurt Romack

Reception

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]

Shown on the Turner Classic Movies show 'Noir Alley' with Eddie Muller on October 22, 2022.

References

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

External links

Cage of Evil at the TCM Movie Database
Cage of Evil at IMDb

Films directed by Edward L. Cahn

1930s/1940s

The Homicide Squad (1931)
Law and Order (1932)
Radio Patrol (1932)
Afraid to Talk (1932)
Emergency Call (1933)
Laughter in Hell (1933)
Death Drives Through (1935)
Confidential (1935)
Bad Guy (1937)
Redhead (1941)
The Omaha Trail (1942, uncredited)
Main Street After Dark (1945)
Dangerous Partners (1945)
Born to Speed (1947)
The Gas House Kids "in Hollywood" (1947)
The Checkered Coat (1948)
I Cheated the Law (1949)
Prejudice (1949)

1950s

The Great Plane Robbery (1950)
Destination Murder (1950)
Experiment Alcatraz (1950)
Two-Dollar Bettor (1951)
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
Betrayed Women (1955)
Silent Fear (1956)
Girls in Prison (1956)
The She Creature (1956)
Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956)
Runaway Daughters (1956)
Flesh and the Spur (1957)
Voodoo Woman (1957)
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
Dragstrip Girl (1957)
Motorcycle Gang (1957)
Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
Jet Attack (1958)
Suicide Battalion (1958)
Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Hong Kong Confidential (1958)
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959)
Inside the Mafia (1959)
Invisible Invaders (1959)
Pier 5, Havana (1959)
Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
A Dog's Best Friend (1959)

1960s

Vice Raid (1960)
Cage of Evil (1960)
Gunfighters of Abilene (1960)
The Music Box Kid (1960)
Noose for a Gunman (1960)
Oklahoma Territory (1960)
Three Came to Kill (1960)
Twelve Hours to Kill (1960)
The Walking Target (1960)
Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961)
Frontier Uprising (1961)
Five Guns to Tombstone (1961)
Police Dog Story (1961)
Operation Bottleneck (1961)
Gun Fight (1961)
The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
When the Clock Strikes (1961)
You Have to Run Fast (1961)
Secret of Deep Harbor (1961)
Gun Street (1962)
The Clown and the Kid (1962)
Incident in an Alley (1962)
Beauty and the Beast (1962)

v t e Films produced by Edward Small
1910-20s	Who's Your Neighbor? (1917) The Sporting Lover (1926) The Cohens and Kellys (1926) The Gorilla (1927) McFadden's Flats (1927) Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928) The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris (1928) My Man (1928) Companionate Marriage (1928) Song of Love (1929)
1930s	Clancy in Wall Street (1930) Igloo (1932) I Cover the Waterfront (1933) Palooka (1933) The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934) Let 'Em Have It (1935) Red Salute (1935) The Melody Lingers On (1935) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) The Bride Walks Out (1936) We Who Are About to Die (1937) Sea Devils (1937) New Faces of 1937 (1937) Super-Sleuth (1937) The Toast of New York (1937) The Duke of West Point (1938) King of the Turf (1939) The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
1940s	My Son, My Son! (1940) The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) South of Pago Pago (1940) Kit Carson (1940) International Lady (1941) The Corsican Brothers (1941) A Gentleman After Dark (1942) Twin Beds (1942) Miss Annie Rooney (1942) Friendly Enemies (1942) Up in Mabel's Room (1944) Abroad with Two Yanks (1944) Brewster's Millions (1945) Getting Gertie's Garter (1945) Temptation (1946) The Return of Monte Cristo (1946) T-Men (1947) The Black Arrow (1948) The Fuller Brush Man (1948) Raw Deal (1948) Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) Black Magic (1949)
1950s	Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950) The Iroquois Trail (1950) Valentino (1951) Lorna Doone (1951) The Texas Rangers (1951) Indian Uprising (1952) Scandal Sheet (1952) The Brigand (1952) Cripple Creek (1952) Kansas City Confidential (1952) The Bandits of Corsica (1953) Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953) Dragon's Gold (1953) Gun Belt (1953) The Neanderthal Man (1953) 99 River Street (1953) Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953) Sabre Jet (1953) The Steel Lady (1953) Wicked Woman (1953) Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954) Khyber Patrol (1954) The Lone Gun (1954) Overland Pacific (1954) Return to Treasure Island (1954) Southwest Passage (1954) Down Three Dark Streets (1954) New York Confidential (1955) The Naked Street (1955) Top Gun (1955) Comanche (1955) Gun Brothers (1956) UFO (1956) Chicago Confidential (1957) 5 Steps to Danger (1957) Gun Duel in Durango (1957) The Iron Sheriff (1957) Monkey on My Back (1957) Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) Hong Kong Confidential (1958) It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958) Witness for the Prosecution (1958) The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959) Inside the Mafia (1959) Invisible Invaders (1959) Pier 5, Havana (1959) Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959) Solomon and Sheba (1959) Timbuktu (1959) (had name removed from credits) Vice Raid (1959)
1960s	Cage of Evil (1960) A Dog's Best Friend (1960) Gunfighters of Abilene (1960) The Music Box Kid (1960) Noose for a Gunman (1960) Oklahoma Territory (1960) Three Came to Kill (1960) The Walking Target (1960) Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961) The Cat Burglar (1961) Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961) Frontier Uprising (1961) Five Guns to Tombstone (1961) The Flight That Disappeared (1961) The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961) Gun Fight (1961) Mary Had a Little... (1961) Operation Bottleneck (1961) Police Dog Story (1961) Secret of Deep Harbor (1961) The Snake Woman (1961) Three on a Spree (1961) When the Clock Strikes (1961) You Have to Run Fast (1961) The Greengage Summer (1961) Beauty and the Beast (1962) The Clown and the Kid (1962) Deadly Duo (1962) Gun Street (1962) Incident in an Alley (1962) Jack the Giant Killer (1962) Saintly Sinners (1962) Tower of London (1962) Diary of a Madman (1963) Twice Told Tales (1963) I'll Take Sweden (1965) Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) Frankie and Johnny (1966) The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968) The File of the Golden Goose (1969) The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)