Favorite WIP Flicks

[Menard]

As of late, Scott and I have reviewed several WIP, women in prison, flicks. Of course (ahem) this is only for the purient interest in the examination of the art of sinematic....I mean cinematic....expression in it's various styles (ahem); somebody must be willing to make the sacrifice.


I thought it would be interesting to see what others takes are on the WIP flick.


Do you have a favorite WIP flick?

What do you find most interesting about WIP flicks?

Do you find some or even all WIP flicks to be offensive?

Which was the best decade for WIP flicks?

Any particular favorite star of WIP flicks?


These are just a few questions about an interesting subgenre.

Add your own comments, questions, and/or rants about this subject.

[BoyScoutKevin]

While I have enjoyed perusing your and Scott's reviews of the WIP flicks, you two have seen, I don't think I have seen any, except for "Born Innocent" w/ Linda Blair.  Nevertheless, I do have a favorite, even if I haven't seen it in its totality. And that is 1950's "The Caged." For its cast, which includes Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Jan Sterling, Lee Patrick, Jane Darwell, Gertrude Michael, Queenie Smith, Nita Talbot, Gordon McRae's wife, Shelia McRae, and Hope Emerson, as the bull dyke prison guard. And for the fact that Hope Emerson's character is the only female character in a film that ever scared the **** out of me.

[peter johnson]

I gotta go with old too:  Susan Hayward in "I Want To Live".  Hayward was a usually reliable actress who could be exceptionally good on occasion, given the stylistic restrictions of the '50's & '40's genre pictures she did.  Here, however, she gnaws on the bars of her cage like Oliver "Rat" Reed.  
Cool over-the-top melodramatic poo --
Not really a WIP, more a WIIA (Women in Insane Asylum -- which would be its own genre, I guess -- Girl Interrupted, etc.), but I can never see Olivia DeHaviland in "The Snake Pit" too often.  Just wonderful.
peter johnson/denny crane