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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.
- (6.8K)
- 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.
For Strait-Jacket, the gimmick-savvy Castle had jumped at the chance to lure a real movie icon into one of his exploitation flicks. As everyone knows (or should know), Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, an axe-murderess released from an “insane asylum” after 20 years.
- Danny Fortune
Strait-Jacket was Joan Crawford's first of two horror film collaborations with William Castle. It was followed by a string of cheapie horror flicks culminating in the release of Trog in 1970. By the 1960s, Crawford's acting career had reached its peak and fallen considerably.
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.
