The Snake Pit (1948)
Country: US
Technical: bw 108m
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Leo Genn, Mark Stevens
Synopsis:
A woman's developing psychosis is recounted by her husband in flashback and probed by her doctor in the institution where she finds herself. For the patient, it is a living hell of confusion and torment likened to a 'snake pit'.
Review:
Strong meat for its time, this Fox social conscience pic is very well made and acted, with minimum concessions to sentimentality or melodramatics.
Country: US
Technical: bw 108m
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Leo Genn, Mark Stevens
Synopsis:
A woman's developing psychosis is recounted by her husband in flashback and probed by her doctor in the institution where she finds herself. For the patient, it is a living hell of confusion and torment likened to a 'snake pit'.
Review:
Strong meat for its time, this Fox social conscience pic is very well made and acted, with minimum concessions to sentimentality or melodramatics.
Country: US
Technical: bw 108m
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Leo Genn, Mark Stevens
Synopsis:
A woman's developing psychosis is recounted by her husband in flashback and probed by her doctor in the institution where she finds herself. For the patient, it is a living hell of confusion and torment likened to a 'snake pit'.
Review:
Strong meat for its time, this Fox social conscience pic is very well made and acted, with minimum concessions to sentimentality or melodramatics.