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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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