The Snake Pit

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Actors: Olivia de Havilland , Beulah Bondi , Howard Freeman , Leif Erickson , Lee Patrick , Leo Genn , Frank Conroy , Natalie Schafer , Minna Gombell , Glenn Langan , Ruth Donnelly , Helen Craig , Katherine Locke , Celeste Holm , Mark Stevens

Director: Anatole Litvak

IMDB Rate: 7.8 out of 10 (1761 votes)

Plot Summary:Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and cant 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...