This movie was ahead of its time, indeed. Released at the tail end of the *Leave it to Beaver* period, it is one of the most cheaply sensational and exploitative films ever made. Although the censorship laws of the times only permitted them to show SO much, its filmmakers have literally CRAMMED it with every conceivable depravity and vice (or what was considered vice at the time); *Lady in a Cage* contains: robbery, drug use, cheap sex, S&M, aimless violence, dead animals, religious blasphemy, murder, eyeball-gouging, prostitution, implied incest, alcoholism, hit-and-run car accidents, and bad poetry!
Look out, John Waters!
Look out, John Waters!