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Strait-Jacket is a 1964 American psychological horror film directed and produced by William Castle, written by Robert Bloch and starring Joan Crawford. Its plot follows a woman who, having murdered her husband and his lover decades prior, is suspected of a series of axe murders following her release from a psychiatric hospital .
Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for twenty years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. While trying to renew ties with Carol, who is now a young woman about to be married, heads begin to roll again.
Strait-Jacket: Directed by William Castle. With Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John. After a 20-year asylum stay for a double ax murder, suspicion arises about Lucy Harbin's behavior as she returns to her daughter Carol, who is engaged to marry Michael Fields.
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- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- William Castle
- 1964-01-08
Mar 9, 2015 · In front of her terrified little girl, Lucy Harbin (Crawford) takes an axe to her philandering husband and his lover, after which, despite protestations of her innocence, she is hauled off – in a strait-jacket, no less – to an institution for the criminally insane.
Overview. After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. William Castle. Director. Robert Bloch. Screenplay. Written by John Chard on November 30, 2014.
Though still mentally shaky, convicted axe-murderess Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) is released from the asylum where she was sent 20 years ago for slaying her unfaithful husband.
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Strait-Jacket is a psychological thriller directed by William Castle, starring Joan Crawford as Lucy Harbin, a woman released from a mental institution after spending 20 years for a double murder.
