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The Snake Pit (1948)
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Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there... See full summary » Director:Anatole Litvak |
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Mark Stevens | ... |
Robert Cunningham
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Leo Genn | ... |
Doctor Mark Kik
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Grace
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Glenn Langan | ... |
Doctor Terry
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Helen Craig | ... |
Nurse Davis
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Leif Erickson | ... |
Gordon
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Beulah Bondi | ... |
Mrs. Greer
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Lee Patrick | ... |
Asylum Inmate
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Howard Freeman | ... |
Dr. Curtis
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Natalie Schafer | ... |
Mrs. Stuart
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Ruth Donnelly | ... |
Ruth
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Katherine Locke | ... |
Margaret
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Frank Conroy | ... |
Dr. Jonathan Gifford
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Minna Gombell | ... |
Miss Hart
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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'... Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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Married and in Love . . . with a Man She Didn't Know or Want!Genres:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
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Die Schlangengrube See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 2, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USACompany Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Virginia Stuart Cunningham: I'll tell you where it's gonna end, Miss Somerville... When there are more sick ones than well ones, the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
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(1945) (uncredited)
Music by M.K. Jerome and Ray Heindorf See more »
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Mary Jane Ward's book, the basis for this film, was an autobiographical account of the author's experiences in psychiatric hospitals. The book caused considerable controversy upon its publication in 1946, as it was a scathing indictment of the treatment of psychiatric patients, a subject considered taboo in the 1940s. Naturally, the book was a runaway bestseller. See more »Goofs
Continuity: After the young Virginia smashes the head of the soldier doll (that reminds her of her father)into several pieces, she is later seen carrying the unbroken doll on the night of her father's death. The intact doll again appears in the apartment that she lives in as an adult. See more »Quotes
Celia Sommerville: And we're so crowded already. I just don't know where it's all gonna end!Virginia Stuart Cunningham: I'll tell you where it's gonna end, Miss Somerville... When there are more sick ones than well ones, the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
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"Some Sunday Morning"(1945) (uncredited)
Music by M.K. Jerome and Ray Heindorf See more »
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