"Usually lumped with the other 'hag horror' films after What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by virtue of the presence of golden-age screen star Olivia de Havilland, Lady in a Cage is actually an upscale version of marginal movies like The Sadist - realistic accounts of everyday atrocious crimes in the modern world. Tricked up with blatant criticisms of contemporary society, Luther Davis and Walter Grauman's film can't escape an essential sickness: Like its low-grade drive-in competition, it is first and foremost an exercise in sordid exploitation." - Glenn Erickson, DVDTalk