The Snake Pit

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1948-11-13

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (4569 Reviews)

Director:

Anatole Litvak

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Olivia de Havilland Mark Stevens Leo Genn Celeste Holm

Writer:

Frank Partos (screen play)

Millen Brand (screen play)

Mary Jane Ward (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms. The asylum staff are not demonized, but fear, ignorance and regimentation keep Virginia in a state of misery, as pipesmoking Dr. Mark Kik struggles through wheels within wheels to find the root of her problem. Then a relapse plunges Virginia back into the harrowing 'Snake Pit'...

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