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DVD Details
- Commentary by Film Historian Aubrey Solomon
- Theatrical Trailer
- Languages: English, French and Spanish
- Subtitles in English and Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 1, 2004
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens & Leo Genn | |
Performer: | Leif Erickson, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi & Natalie Schafer | |
Directed by | Anatole Litvak | |
Edited by | Dorothy Spencer | |
Composition by | Alfred Newman | |
Produced by | Robert Bassler & Anatole Litvak | |
Director of Photography: | Leo Tover |
Entertainment Reviews:
Olivia de Havilland delivers an Oscar-nominated performance...
Entertainment Weekly
It 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.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This remains one of the best screen explorations of mental illness and its treatment.
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TV Guide
It's entertaining enough in a hysterical sort of way, even if it never matches up to the excesses of Fuller's later Shock Corridor.
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Time Out
Rating: 6/10 --
[Olivia] de Havilland does as much as she can with what she's given.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: B+ --
As 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.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
For the audience of today, the primary draw of the picture is watching Olivia de Havilland deliver a particularly terrifying performance.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Virginia Cunningham (de Havilland) appeared to have had an idyllic life - a nice home, a loving husband and prospects for a writing career. But something wasn't right. Confusion, doubts about her husband's love, even violent outbursts led Virginia to be confined in a mental institution. She is put through a series of brutal treatments, including being forced into close quarters with patients whose disorders far exceed her own. The belief - the shock of the experience will return her to sanity. De Havilland's gripping turn as a woman desperately trying to return to normalcy in The Snake Pit is supported with an outstanding ensemble cast, including Leo Genn, Celeste Holm and Mark Stevens.
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Mary Jane Ward, THE SNAKE PIT is a frank portrait of mental illness. Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) wakes up only to discover that she's in the state insane asylum. Unable to remember the events that led to her being institutionalized, Virginia slowly puts the pieces together through a series of flashbacks. As her doctor, Mark Kirk (Leo Genn), continues to struggle with Virginia's condition, he finds that she only appears to be headed further into a downward spiral. Director Anatole Litvak and de Havilland were nominated for Oscars for their superior efforts.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 126,567
- UPC: 024543119821
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