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House of Women is a 1962 American crime drama directed by Crane Wilbur, starring Shirley Knight and Andrew Duggan. Walter Doniger, who was hired to direct the film, was fired and replaced by Wilbur 10 days into shooting.
A loose reworking of John Cromwell's Caged (1950), in which wrongly-convicted Eleanor Parker enters prison an innocent but walks out a hardened criminal, House of Women was the work of Crane Wilbur, a stage and silent film actor who transitioned to writing and directing Hollywood features.
House of Women (1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In the tradition of its femmes-behind-bars forerunners, this remake of the Warner Bros. genre landmark Caged is reform-minded in its story and spiked with provocatively pitched elements...
Young and pregnant, innocent Shirley Knight has been sent to a women's prison for being the driver of a car in a robbery committed by her boyfriend. Giving birth to her baby in prison, Knight hopes to get parole so she can raise it in a proper atmosphere.
House of Women: Directed by Walter Doniger, Crane Wilbur. With Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford, Barbara Nichols. Drama about a young woman, Erica, who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years, where she faces deplorable conditions.
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
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