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Strait-Jacket (1964) -- After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior

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Writer:
Robert Bloch (written by)
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Release Date:
19 January 1964 (USA) more
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Tagline:
HER HUSBAND...HER ROOM... ......AND ANOTHER WOMAN more
Plot:
After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. full summary | full synopsis
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A full throttle plunge into dementia!!!! more (57 total)

Cast

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Joan Crawford ... Lucy Harbin
Diane Baker ... Carol Harbin
Leif Erickson ... Bill Cutler
Howard St. John ... Raymond Fields
John Anthony Hayes ... Michael Fields
Rochelle Hudson ... Emily Cutler
George Kennedy ... Leo Krause
Edith Atwater ... Mrs. Fields
Mitchell Cox ... Dr. Anderson
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Additional Details

Runtime:
93 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Germany:18 | Portugal:M/16 | USA:Approved (No. 20618) | USA:TV-14 (TV rating) | UK:X (theatrical release) (cut) | Finland:(Banned) (1964)

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Trivia:
The doctor in the movie was not an actor but was actually the vice-president of the Pepsi-Cola Company. Joan Crawford had made this arrangement without consulting with producer William Castle. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: There are several references to the Fields' farm being a dairy farm. However, in multiple scenes, you can see that they are Black Angus beef cattle. more
Quotes:
Lucy Harbin: [to Michael] You sit down here with Carrol because I wouldn't want her to think I was taking her father away from her. more
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Featured in Serial Mom (1994) more
Soundtrack:
There Goes That Song more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
A full throttle plunge into dementia!!!!, 16 May 2005
4/10
Author: tamstrat from United States

For die-hard Crawford fan's this movie is an absolute hoot!!!! To see our gal Joanie decked out in the horrible wig with bangs to the jangling bracelets, it's a camp classic. Joan plays a woman who catches her young husband in bed with another hoochie and murders them both with an AXE and is sent to the loony bin for a number of years. The fun starts when she is released and guess what, you got it, axe murders start up again, imagine that????? Only Crawford could deliver banal lines with a completely straight face and she does give it her all, but the movie is just too silly to be taken seriously. Please watch it if you are teetering on the brink of insanity.

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I thought Joan was hot in her '20 years ago' look mackbrockton
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Headless Columbia figure at end of movie texaslassie2004
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