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  1. 'Strait-Jacket' for me was surprisingly good. It is not quite a classic, though it is certainly camp in a very entertaining way, but it is not schlocky either. In my view, it is one of Castle's better films (not just of this period but overall) and one of Crawford's better 60s films in a decade that really didn't see her or her film choices at ...

  2. Movie Review. The movie plays out like a pretty early slasher imo. Of course, Joan Crawford absolutely demolishes everyone else this movie. The way her character slowly seems to unravel more and more until the absolutely bonkers ending was so good.

  3. 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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  4. 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 .

  5. May 15, 2015 · After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour. I’m a huge William Castle fan so to see Joan Crawford in a Castle film is unmissable. Crawford plays the lead character, but she wasn’t actually the first choice.

  6. 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.

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  8. Aug 23, 2018 · Strait-Jacket, with a standout performance from Crawford, is all sorts of manic and unsettling. And it saves its best bits for the very end. You never know where it’s headed – especially once it opens up beyond its rustic farmhouse settings – but the film remains a standout of the Castle catalog.

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