This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to start an out-patient program for the women in the ward. His method of treating mentally ill patients without violence or punishment is met with resistance by the head nurse, Lucretia Terry (Joan Crawford). During Dr. MacLeod's treatment, the phobias and illnesses of the various women in the tes... (Full plot summary below)
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This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to start an out-patient program for the women in the ward. His method of treating mentally ill patients without violence or punishment is met with resistance by the head nurse, Lucretia Terry (Joan Crawford). During Dr. MacLeod's treatment, the phobias and illnesses of the various women in the test group are explored.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn unintentionally funny overwrought melodrama. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThe only good thing in this campy Joan Crawford mental hospital flick is the Oscar-nominated cinematography by Lucien Ballard. |
| User ReviewBruce BThis historically important and well meaning early look at American psychiatry quickly devolves into an unintentionally funny overwrought melodrama. |
| User ReviewAshley HDecent little melodrama about waring philosophies of how to treat patients at a mental hospital. Joan Crawford is the old school head nurse who wants to lock up and isolate the crazies, while Robert Stack is the young idealistic doctor who sees them as patients and wants to treat them with his radical new ideas around "group therapy". The script is pretty smart and there are some good performances, but the film feels like a poorly edited TV movie. Not as good as it could have been, but not bad either. |
| User ReviewHillary MI love the restraint training scene where Joan Crawford (Head Nurse Lucretia lol) is teaching the new nurses Judo. She says, "I want my nurses in top physical condition." And Joan herself is so very very out of shape you can only imagine her with a cigarette in one hand and a bottle of bourbon in the other lol. Exploitive and often funny, watch it with "The Snake Pit" for a night of melodramatic mental illness. |
| User ReviewBrody MGood movie.Some parts kinda reminded me of 1 Flew The Cuckoos Nest |
| User ReviewGregory Wgood stuff Polly Bergen does crazy so good |
