The Snake Pit
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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Drama
1948
108 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : The Snake Pit
- Duration : 108 min
- Languages : English, German
- Writers : Frank Partos (screen play), Millen Brand (screen play), Mary Jane Ward (based on the novel by)
- Directors : Anatole Litvak min
- Imdb : 7.7 (4569 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.8 (2569 votes)
- Actors : Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm
Movie Storyline
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'...