Cage of Evil

{{Infobox film

| name = Cage of Evil

| image = "Cage_of_Evil"_(1960).jpg

| caption =

| director = Edward L. Cahn

| producer = Edward Small (executive)
Robert E. Kent

| screenplay = Orville H. Hampton

| based_on = story by Orville H. Hampton and Alexander Richards

| starring = Ron Foster
Patricia Blair
Harp McGuire

| music = Paul Sawtell
Bert Shefter

| cinematography = Maury Gertsman

| editing = Michael Minth (as Michael J. Minth)
Grant Whytock

| studio = Robert E. Kent Productions (as Zenith Pictures)

| distributor = United Artists

| released = {{Film date|1960|07||US}}

| runtime = 70 mins

| country = USA

| language = English

| budget =

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Cage of Evil is a low-budget 1960 crime film starring Ron Foster and Patricia Blair.{{Cite news|title=Foster in Film|date=July 27, 1960|work=Los Angeles Times|page=24}}{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a6ebdeb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715004843/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a6ebdeb|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-15|title=Cage of Evil|work=BFI}}

Plot

Scott Harper is a frustrated police detective who is constantly passed over for promotion. When he is assigned to gain the confidence of Holly, the girlfriend of a robbery suspect, the couple fall in love and then plot to murder Holly's boyfriend and run off to Mexico with the loot.

Cast

Ronald Foster as Scott Harper
Patricia Blair as Holly Taylor (billed as Pat Blair)
Harp McGuire as Murray Kearns
John Maxwell as Don Melrose
Preston Hanson as Tom Colton
Doug Henderson as Barney
Hugh Sanders as Martin Bender
Helen Kleeb as Mrs. Melton
Robert Shayne as Victor Delmar
Owen Bush as Sgt. Ray Dean
Ted Knight as Dan Ivers
Howard McLeod as Kurt Romack

Reception

In a contemporary review for the New York Daily News, critic Maxine Dowling called Cage of Evil "a bitter and contrived tale...It's an uninteresting, slowly paced melodrama that does nothing for anyone concerned, least of all our much maligned police."{{Cite news|last=Dowling|first=Maxine|date=1960-06-30|title=A Sequel to 'Hercules' on For Brooklyn|page=71|work=Daily News}}

The New York Post commented that "performances are better than fair," and that the film "is a shoot-it-out opus with little surprise. The audience knows from the beginning that detective Ron Foster is unhappy with his lot. Much work, no promotion. We wait for him, on the trail of a diamond thief, to go over to the other side. This he does, not only because he envies the spoils, but because he has fallen for the crook's moll, Pat Blair. They get theirs!""'Cage of Evil' Opens at Loew's Metropolitan." New York Post, 30 June 1960.

TV Guide wrote that "it's not bad for grade-B crime drama."{{cite web|url= https://www.tvguide.com/movies/cage-of-evil/review/2000273390|title=Cage Of Evil|work=TVGuide.com}}