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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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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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Flashback | Marriage | Music Band | Reality | Doctor Patient Relationship | See more »Taglines:
Married and in Love . . . with a Man She Didn't Know or Want!Genres:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
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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Doctor Mark Kik: A snake pit?
Virginia Stuart Cunningham: Later, weeks later, I understood. I remembered once reading in a book that long ago they used to put insane people into pits full of snakes. I think they figured that something which might drive a normal person insane, might shock an insane person back into sanity. Did you ever hear of that?
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(1945) (uncredited)
Music by M.K. Jerome and Ray Heindorf See more »
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Stephen King has said that watching this film on TV as a child deeply disturbed him and made him feel that he could suddenly go insane, directly contributing to his macabre interests and subsequently his writings. 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
Virginia Stuart Cunningham: It was strange, here I was among all those people, and at the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away, the whole place seemed to me like a deep hole and the people down in it like strange animals, like... like snakes, and I've been thrown into it... yes... as though... as though I were in a snake pit...Doctor Mark Kik: A snake pit?
Virginia Stuart Cunningham: Later, weeks later, I understood. I remembered once reading in a book that long ago they used to put insane people into pits full of snakes. I think they figured that something which might drive a normal person insane, might shock an insane person back into sanity. Did you ever hear of that?
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Soundtracks
"Some Sunday Morning"(1945) (uncredited)
Music by M.K. Jerome and Ray Heindorf See more »
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