Particularly Unremarkable, Stiff, and Dull is the Leading Lady, Former Model Turned Actress Patricia Blair, With the Screen Presence of a Mannequin and about the Same Range.
Not that Ron Foster as the Good-Cop Turned Bad and the Other Clunky Hunks Walking Around with Edward Cahn's Pedestrian Direction do Much Better.
From Top to Bottom, Stage-Left to Stage-Right, this Thing just Reeks of Rusty Familiarity with No Edge at All.
The Awkward Title that is Repeated in the Vapid Voice-Over is another Piece of this Puzzle of a Film lost in the Netherland of Police-Procedural, Film-Noir, Neo-Noir, and is so Mundanely Paced, Acted, Scripted and Presented, it's too Lame to Fit Snugly or be Welcomed Anywhere.
There are Worst Movies of this Type Out There, and Director Edward L. Cahn has a Better Prolific Track-Record than this Piece of Dullsville would Attest.
The Turn of the Decade from the 50's to the 60's was a Difficult and Uncertain Time for Movies and Pop-Culture in General.
It was Sort of the Calm Before the Storm, a Whirlpool Waiting to Break Out and Crash.
From 1959-1964 the Arts in America were Comatose, Unexpressed, Reluctant, and Atrophied.
When the Dam Broke and Pop-Culture Awakened from it Slumber...Well that was the Sixties.
"Cage of Evil", is one of those that is a good Example, along with the "Teen Idols" on the Radio that Replaced Real "Rock n' Rollers",
of what was Happening in that Dead Period, between the Death of "Staunch Conservatism" and the Birth of "Ultra-Liberalism".
It was a Period of Formulaic, Take-No-Chances, Stagnation and Boredom.
This is the Result.
Not that Ron Foster as the Good-Cop Turned Bad and the Other Clunky Hunks Walking Around with Edward Cahn's Pedestrian Direction do Much Better.
From Top to Bottom, Stage-Left to Stage-Right, this Thing just Reeks of Rusty Familiarity with No Edge at All.
The Awkward Title that is Repeated in the Vapid Voice-Over is another Piece of this Puzzle of a Film lost in the Netherland of Police-Procedural, Film-Noir, Neo-Noir, and is so Mundanely Paced, Acted, Scripted and Presented, it's too Lame to Fit Snugly or be Welcomed Anywhere.
There are Worst Movies of this Type Out There, and Director Edward L. Cahn has a Better Prolific Track-Record than this Piece of Dullsville would Attest.
The Turn of the Decade from the 50's to the 60's was a Difficult and Uncertain Time for Movies and Pop-Culture in General.
It was Sort of the Calm Before the Storm, a Whirlpool Waiting to Break Out and Crash.
From 1959-1964 the Arts in America were Comatose, Unexpressed, Reluctant, and Atrophied.
When the Dam Broke and Pop-Culture Awakened from it Slumber...Well that was the Sixties.
"Cage of Evil", is one of those that is a good Example, along with the "Teen Idols" on the Radio that Replaced Real "Rock n' Rollers",
of what was Happening in that Dead Period, between the Death of "Staunch Conservatism" and the Birth of "Ultra-Liberalism".
It was a Period of Formulaic, Take-No-Chances, Stagnation and Boredom.
This is the Result.