The Snake Pit (1948)

Directed by

Anatole Litvak

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 118 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman wakes up in a mental hospital with no memory of how she got there. The film follows her struggles to recover her past and make sense of her present.

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What happens

The Snake Pit is a 1948 American psychological drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick. Based on Mary Jane Ward's 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, the film recounts the tale of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there. The novel was adapted for the screen by Frank Partos and Millen Brand, in screen credits order, and Arthur Laurents (uncredited). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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