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The Snake Pit is brought to life by an excellent performance from de Havilland and a tremendously entertaining and diverse supporting cast among Virginia's fellow patients, and the film was...
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- Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
- Anatole Litvak
- Drama
Seventy-five years ago, Olivia de Havilland starred in a film that humanized women struggling with mental health, and together with director Anatole Litvak, created a sensitive portrayal of a...
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- The Rewind Project
The Snake PitA detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.Director: Anatole LitvakWriters: Frank Partos (screen play), Millen Bran...
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- Film Trailer Channel
Jul 29, 2021 · A dramatic best-seller, The Snake Pit vividly depicts one woman's plunge into the nightmare world of the mentally ill and her agonizing climb back to health and freedom. When it was first published, the book claimed attention as a moving study of mental illness based on personal knowledge.
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The Snake Pit is a standout among class melodramas. Based on Mary Jane Ward's novel, picture probes into the processes of mental illness with a razor-sharp forthrightness, giving an open-handed display of the make-up of bodies without minds and the treatments used to restore intelligence.
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- Anatole Litvak
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- Olivia de Havilland
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.
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Jun 1, 2019 · Anatole Litvak’s The Snake Pit (not capitalized on the movie title itself) attempts to visualize the experience of a nervous breakdown, and even if the psychology on tap is far too pat, he does an excellent job of showing the dehumanizing terror of an asylum.