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7 June 1955 (USA) morePlot:
At an exclusive psychiatric clinic, the doctors and staff are about as crazy as the patients. The clinic head... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
100% soap; William Gibson drama has library drapes-envy more (18 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Widmark | ... | Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver | |
| Lauren Bacall | ... | Meg Faversen Rinehart | |
| Charles Boyer | ... | Dr. Douglas N. Devanal | |
| Gloria Grahame | ... | Karen McIver | |
| Lillian Gish | ... | Victoria Inch | |
| John Kerr | ... | Steven W. Holte | |
| Susan Strasberg | ... | Sue Brett | |
| Oscar Levant | ... | Mr. Capp | |
| Tommy Rettig | ... | Mark McIver | |
| Paul Stewart | ... | Dr. Otto Wolff | |
| Jarma Lewis | ... | Lois Y. Demuth | |
| Adele Jergens | ... | Miss Cobb | |
| Edgar Stehli | ... | Mr. Holcomb | |
| Sandy Descher | ... | Rosemary McIver | |
| Bert Freed | ... | Abe Irwin |
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134 min | USA:123 min (TCM print)Country:
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4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Sound System)Fun Stuff
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Revealing mistakes: Stewart makes warm milk for Steve by heating chilled milk direct from refrigerator on stove for less than 20 seconds in on-screen real time. moreFAQ
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Confounding melodrama taken from a William Gibson story, produced by John Houseman and directed by Vincente Minnelli! Richard Widmark heads up posh, upscale rural nervous asylum, where his loose wife battles with self-appointed queen bee Lillian Gish, and Widmark himself gets the straying eye for staff-newcomer Lauren Bacall, who is putting her life back together after the death of her husband and child. Facetious and muddled, set in an indiscriminate time and place, and with a "David and Lisa" love story hidden in the plush morass. Widmark and Bacall do have some good chemistry together, but this script gives them nothing to build on. For precisely an hour, most of the dialogue concerns what to do about the drapes hanging in the library (this thread isn't used as symbolism, rather it's a red herring in a non-mystery!). The picture hopes to show the loggerheads that disparate people come to when they're working in the same profession and everyone thinks their opinion is right, but unfortunately the roundabout way Minnelli unravels this stew is neither informative, enlightening nor entertaining. ** from ****