The Snake Pit( 1948)

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Married and in love... with a man she didn't know or want!

Overview

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.

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Olivia de Havilland
Virginia Stuart Cunningham
Mark Stevens
Robert Cunningham
Leo Genn
Doctor Mark H. Van Kensdelaerik (Dr. "Kik")
Celeste Holm
Grace
Glenn Langan
Doctor Terry
Helen Craig
Nurse Davis
Leif Erickson
Gordon
Beulah Bondi
Mrs. Greer
Lee Patrick
Asylum Inmate
Howard Freeman
Dr. Curtis
Natalie Schafer
Mrs. Stuart
Ruth Donnelly
Ruth
Katherine Locke
Margaret
Frank Conroy
Dr. Jonathan Gifford
Minna Gombell
Miss Hart
June Storey
Miss Bixby
Lora Lee Michel
Virginia - Age 6
Damian O'Flynn
Mr. Stuart
Ann Doran
Valerie
Esther Somers
Nurse Vance
Jacqueline deWit
Celia Sommerville
Betsy Blair
Hester
Lela Bliss
Miss Greene
Queenie Smith
Lola
Virginia Brissac
Miss Seiffert
Grayce Hampton
Inmate Countess
Mary Treen
Nurse Jones
Dorothy Neumann
Champion - Miss Neumann
Jan Clayton
Singing Inmate
Marie Blake
Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Victoria Horne
Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Doro Merande
Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Barbara Pepper
Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Wanda Perry
Nurse (uncredited)
Vicky Albright
Virginia - Age 2 (uncredited)
Jean Andren
Nurse (uncredited)
Sylvia Andrew
Patient (uncredited)
Angela Clarke
Greek Patient (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Sat Nov 02 2013

I'll tell you where it's gonna end, Miss Somerville... When there are more sick ones than well ones, the sick ones will lock the well ones up. The Snake Pit is directed by Anatole Litvak and adapted to screenplay by Frank Partos, Millen Brand and Arthur Laurents from the novel written by Mary Jane Ward. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig, Leif Erickson and Beulah Bondi. Music is by Alfred Newman and cinematography by Leo Tover. Olivia de Havilland plays Virginia Stuart Cunningham, and film chronicles Virgina's time and treatment i...