The Snake Pit
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Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, their marriage, and her developing symptoms. The asylum staff are not demonized, but fear, ignorance, and regimentation keep Virginia in a state of misery as pipe-smoking 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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Snake Pit:

Olivia de Havilland
Mark Stevens
Leo Genn
Celeste Holm
Glenn Langan
Helen Craig

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Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, their marriage, and her developing symptoms. The asylum staff are not demonized, but fear, ignorance, and regimentation keep Virginia in a state of misery as pipe-smoking 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.

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Time Out - 10/10 by Geoff AndrewOverrated at the time as a piece of mature and realistic cinema with a strong social conscience, this now works best as lurid melodrama.
The New York Times - 8/10 by Bosley CrowtherThe Snake Pit, while frankly quite disturbing, and not recommended for the weak, is a mature emotional drama on a rare and pregnant theme.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyAs one of Hollywood's first "serious" chronicles of life in an asylum, the film is uneven, containing some intelligent observations but also lurid sequences and simplistic psychological explanations.
The Observer (UK) - 8/10 by Philip FrenchAs Virginia grapples with her inner demons, as well as a memory loss that leaves her disoriented and unsure of who she can trust, The Snake Pit periodically transcends its archaic psychological trappings to become an empathic examination of a woman battling both the internal and external forces that seek to fully erase her sense of self.
Hollywood Reporter - 6/10 by THR StaffIt makes no compromise with the shocking facts as presented in the novel. The result is a drama that builds to a fever pitch of tension and holds itself there with superlative artistry.
Hollywood Reporter - 6/10 by The Hollywood Reporter StaffIt makes no compromise with the shocking facts as presented in the novel. The result is a drama that builds to a fever pitch of tension and holds itself there with superlative artistry.
Antagony & Ecstasy - 6/10 by Tim Brayton[Olivia] de Havilland does as much as she can with what she's given.
User Review - 10/10 by David HExcellent Asylum Movie who create a Realistic Picture of Mental Illness Olivia de Haivlannd is breathtaking
User Review - 10/10 by Amber Ja classic piece, Dorathea Dix would have probobly liked, about the mentally ill...
User Review - 10/10 by Static M"It was strange, here I was among all those people, and at the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away, the whole place seemed to me like a deep hole and the people down in it like strange animals, like... like snakes, and I've been thrown into it... yes... as though... as though I were in a snake pit..." I love this movie!

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