The Snake Pit

Movie Information

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.'—Rod Crawford

Director:

Anatole Litvak

Writer:

Frank Partos, Millen Brand, Mary Jane Ward

Actors:

Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn