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The Fifth Floor

  • 1978
  • R
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
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The Fifth Floor (1978)
A college disco dancer is wrongly committed to an insane asylum.
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College disco dancer is wrongly committed to an insane asylum.College disco dancer is wrongly committed to an insane asylum.College disco dancer is wrongly committed to an insane asylum.

  • Director
    • Howard Avedis
  • Writers
    • Meyer Dolinsky
    • Howard Avedis
    • Marlene Schmidt
  • Stars
    • Bo Hopkins
    • Dianne Hull
    • Patti D'Arbanville
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.0/10
    471
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Howard Avedis
    • Writers
      • Meyer Dolinsky
      • Howard Avedis
      • Marlene Schmidt
    • Stars
      • Bo Hopkins
      • Dianne Hull
      • Patti D'Arbanville
    • 18User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
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    The Fifth Floor (1978)
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    Dianne Hull in The Fifth Floor (1978)
    Mel Ferrer, Bo Hopkins, and Julie Adams in The Fifth Floor (1978)
    Bo Hopkins and Sharon Farrell in The Fifth Floor (1978)
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    Bo Hopkins
    Bo Hopkins
    • Carl
    Dianne Hull
    Dianne Hull
    • Kelly McIntyre
    Patti D'Arbanville
    Patti D'Arbanville
    • Cathy
    Sharon Farrell
    Sharon Farrell
    • Melanie
    Robert Englund
    Robert Englund
    • Benny
    Anthony James
    Anthony James
    • Derrick
    Julie Adams
    Julie Adams
    • Nurse Hannelord
    Mel Ferrer
    Mel Ferrer
    • Dr. Sidney Coleman
    John David Carson
    John David Carson
    • Ronnie Denton
    Earl Boen
    Earl Boen
    • Phil
    Betty Kean
    Betty Kean
    • Sophy
    Alice Nunn
    Alice Nunn
    • Emma
    Cathey Paine
    • Lois
    Udana Power
    Udana Power
    • Nurse Whelan
    Maggie Appel
    • Mental Patient
    Howard Avedis
    • Occupational Therapist
    Gregory J. Barnett
    Gregory J. Barnett
    • Deputy Sheriff
    • (as Greg Barnett)
    Michael Berryman
    Michael Berryman
    • Mental Patient
    • Director
      • Howard Avedis
    • Writers
      • Meyer Dolinsky
      • Howard Avedis
      • Marlene Schmidt
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    • Trivia
      Elayne Heilveil had a role in the film as one of the patients, but due to re shoots and ongoing production problems, her scenes were cut from the final film, but she appeared in promotional material.
    • Alternate versions
      CBS edited 9 minutes from this film for its 1983 network television premiere.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Serial, The Changeling, My Brilliant Career, Foxes, Nijinsky (1980)
    • Soundtracks
      Fly Away
      Written by Lenny Laks and Matthew Ender (as Matt Ender)

      Sung by Pattie Brooks

    User reviews18

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    7/10
    Not bad
    The Fifth Floor is an engaging piece of work that was much better than I expected. Using a tag line like "From the disco floor to the insane asylum" is asking for trouble but the film deserves better than that.

    Dianne Hull plays Kelly, a friendly girl who works at a disco club (not sure what as!), who has a sudden seizure one night while dancing and is rushed to hospital. When it is found that she has strychnine poisoning, Kelly claims that she has been poisoned, but alas for her, no-one believes her and she is sent to a psychiatrist as a possible suicide, which, due to a few more misunderstandings, leads her to being incarcerated on the "Fifth Floor", which is a special secure ward for the insane. Can she establish her sanity and get out of the place and back to normality? What I liked about the film is that it plays the scenario of Kelly's plight out quite seriously. The more she complains, accuses the staff of lying and refuses to take treatment ( a very good performance here by Dianne Hull), the more deeply she gets herself trapped. While watching you find yourself thinking: "Yes I guess that's exactly what a mad person would do and say as well", and her plight struck me as all too believable. The biggest spanner in the works for poor Kelly is a corrupt and lascivious orderly called Carl (effectlively played by Bo Hopkins) who likes to sexually assault the younger female inmates and then blame their later accusations on hysteria. He takes a shine to Kelly and the two scenes in which he abuses her are quite unpleasant. Thrown into this are some good minor performances by the other inmates that Kelly befriends, including a pregnant girl called Cathy and a seriously unhappy and troubled woman named Melanie, played with genuine feeling and impressive intensity by Sharon Farrell.

    So, although the plot is nothing new (sane person committed to an asylum by mistake), the film does a good job of handling it. Although the situation is kept small scale, you can certainly feel for the central character, and with great performances all round and a couple of rather surprisingly brutal scenes, it all goes towards making "The Fifth Floor" a place you really should visit.
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    • Release date
      • November 15, 1978 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Beşinci Koğuş
    • Filming locations
      • Marina del Rey, California, USA(As the Disco club 'Demons'. It's real world name at the time was Flanigan's Big Daddy's at 4350 lincoln ave.)
    • Production company
      • Hickmar Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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