For Olivia de Havilland's fans like me ,"lady in a cage" is a delight.The actress ,often alone on the screen, gives a brilliant tormented performance ,just before her first "villain" part in "Hush hush sweet Charlotte".
From the very start ,we feel something is wrong:this luxury house ,with this son saying goodbye to his mom seems too good to be true.Trapped in her elevator ,the lady 's nightmare begins.The cast and credits over cars honking in the streets ,some kind of musique concrete was downright disturbing :is there somebody who cares?does someone show compassion? Are you all monsters? the heroine yells as five intruders are burglarizing her desirable mansion.James Caan matches De Havilland all the way and this odd pairing (they really come from two different generations of acting) works out fine.
It's the first time I've seen a Walter Grauman film and his directing impressed me: all the things ,all the pieces of furniture ,before the intrusion,seem to have a life on their own.And there's this letter the son has left.We are not given enough time to read it ,and we forget all about it but...
Who is finally the real monster? If you've seen Mankiewicz's "Suddenly last Summer" (1959),you may remember Katherine Hepburn's Mrs Venable in her elevator ...That over possessive mother...
For the sixties,an intense violent film ...not for claustrophobic viewers!
From the very start ,we feel something is wrong:this luxury house ,with this son saying goodbye to his mom seems too good to be true.Trapped in her elevator ,the lady 's nightmare begins.The cast and credits over cars honking in the streets ,some kind of musique concrete was downright disturbing :is there somebody who cares?does someone show compassion? Are you all monsters? the heroine yells as five intruders are burglarizing her desirable mansion.James Caan matches De Havilland all the way and this odd pairing (they really come from two different generations of acting) works out fine.
It's the first time I've seen a Walter Grauman film and his directing impressed me: all the things ,all the pieces of furniture ,before the intrusion,seem to have a life on their own.And there's this letter the son has left.We are not given enough time to read it ,and we forget all about it but...
Who is finally the real monster? If you've seen Mankiewicz's "Suddenly last Summer" (1959),you may remember Katherine Hepburn's Mrs Venable in her elevator ...That over possessive mother...
For the sixties,an intense violent film ...not for claustrophobic viewers!