| Caged (1950) | Eleanor Parker "Parker plays a naive, unwitting robbery accomplice sent to prison. She clumsily smokes when offered a cigarette by a sympathetic warden (Agnes Moorehead) upon arrival. Eventually the barbaric prison conditions turn her in to hardened criminal, and her smoking improves the tougher she becomes. At one point her head is shaved as punishment and shortly therafter she has the best smoking scene of the picture,with her anger and hopelesness clearly visible. At the end of the movie she is released on parole to gangsters, and she seductively allows one of them to light her cigarette as she gets in the car. Very good stuff!!"
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