Another American reviewer in 1950, "Film Bulletin", gave generally high marks as well to "Caged". The New York-based weekly publication, which promoted itself as an “Independent Motion Picture Trade Paper”, did contend that the film's "stark, gripping" social commentary would be even more powerful if the "dismal atmosphere" of its storyline had at least a few contrasting lighter moments. “'Caged’”, "Film Bulletin" observed, "is to penal institutions what ‘The Snake Pit’ was to mental institutions and ‘The Lost Weekend’ to alcoholism."