Cage of Gold

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Cage of Gold is a 1950 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jean Simmons, David Farrar and James Donald.^[1]

Plot

A young woman deserts her prospective fiance for an old flame who makes her pregnant, marries her, then leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he discovers that her father can offer him no financial support. Two years later she - believing her husband Bill Glennan to be dead - has married her former fiance and borne a son, Nicholas. Glennan reappears and proceeds to blackmail her.^[2]

Critical Responses

"Melodrama of a young girl's tragic infatuation for a worthless bounder who had been her schoolgirl hero. Lavishly staged and efficiently directed, but the characters are somewhat stereotyped."^[3]

Cast

Jean Simmons as Judith Moray
David Farrar as Bill Glennan
James Donald as Dr Alan Kearn
Herbert Lom as Rahman
Madeleine LeBeau as Marie Jouvet
Maria Mauban as Antoinette Duport
Bernard Lee as Inspector Grey
Grégoire Aslan as Duport
Gladys Henson as Waddy
Harcourt Williams as Dr Kearn senior
Léo Ferré as Victor
George Benson as Assistant Registrar
Martin Boddey as Police Sergeant Adams
Arthur Hambling as Jenkins
Campbell Singer as Constable

References

↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042295/
↑ http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a6ec10f
↑ Picture Show, vol 55, No 1441

Films directed by Basil Dearden

The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
The Goose Steps Out (1942)
The Bells Go Down (1943)
My Learned Friend (1943)
The Halfway House (1944)
They Came to a City (1945)
The Captive Heart (1946)
Frieda (1947)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
Cage of Gold (1950)
Pool of London (1951)
I Believe in You (1952)
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
The Square Ring (1953)
The Rainbow Jacket (1954)
Out of the Clouds (1955)
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
Who Done It? (1956)
The Green Man (1956)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Violent Playground (1958)
Sapphire (1959)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Man in the Moon (1960)
The Secret Partner (1961)
Victim (1961)
All Night Long (1962)
Life for Ruth (1962)
The Mind Benders (1963)
A Place to Go (1963)
Woman of Straw (1964)
Masquerade (1965)
Khartoum (1966)
Only When I Larf (1968)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

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