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13 November 1948 (USA)
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Married and in Love . . . with a Man She Didn't Know or Want!
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Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback...
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Won Oscar.
Another 7 wins
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8 nominations
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ANOTHER OUTSTANDING FOX CLASSIC DVD
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Olivia de Havilland | ... | Virginia Stuart Cunningham |
 | Mark Stevens | ... | Robert Cunningham |
| Leo Genn | ... | Doctor Mark Kik |
| Celeste Holm | ... | Grace |
| Glenn Langan | ... | Doctor Terry |
| Helen Craig | ... | Nurse Davis |
| Leif Erickson | ... | Gordon |
| Beulah Bondi | ... | Mrs. Greer |
| Lee Patrick | ... | Asylum Inmate |
| Howard Freeman | ... | Dr. Curtis |
| Natalie Schafer | ... | Mrs. Stuart |
| Ruth Donnelly | ... | Ruth |
| Katherine Locke | ... | Margaret |
| Frank Conroy | ... | Dr. Jonathan Gifford |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Miss Hart |
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108 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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The title stems from an ancient practice of dealing with the mentally ill where they were thrown into a pit of snakes. The theory was that something like that would make a normal person insane, therefore it must work in reverse.
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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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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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Referenced in "Amazing Stories: Secret Cinema (#1.20)" (1986)
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Some Sunday Morning
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With their June 2004 release of THE SNAKE PIT on DVD, 20th Century Fox has added another winner to the "Studio Classics" series. Number 19 (20 if you count F. W. Murnau's SUNRISE)proves to be another example of the strong, dramatic material that Fox often put out under the helm of Darryl F. Zanuck during the 1940s. GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT, ALL ABOUT EVEN, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT and THE GRAPES OF WRATH are six examples of Fox quality drama that have previously received the "Studio Classic" treatment.
THE SNAKE PIT (1948) tells the story of a young woman suffering from a nervous breakdown, her confinement in a mental institution of the day, and her struggle for recovery through the efforts of a caring doctor (Leo Genn) and loving husband (Mark Stevens). Olivia de Havilland as the mentally ill woman, gives one of the finest performances of her career. If she hadn't received the Academy Award two years previously (1946)for TO EACH HIS OWN, she most likely would have taken the 1948 Best Actress Oscar over Jane Wyman fine performance as JOHNNY BELINDA. I would say that THE SNAKE PIT along with her performance in William Wyler's (1949) film, THE HEIRESS (for which she won a second Oscar), represent the two finest performances of her entire career. Anatole Livak's strong direction brings to life an outstanding screenplay. The film was certainly worthy of the six Academy Award nominations that it received, including one for Best Picture. If you enjoy strong drama with outstanding performances, then you will want to include THE SNAKE PIT in your DVD collection.