Directed by Anatole Litvak Writing credits:: Millen Brand Frank Partos Mary Jane Ward (Novel) ================= Plot Summary: Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms. The asylum staff are not demonized, but fear, ignorance and regimentation keep Virginia in a state of misery, as pipesmoking Dr. Mark Kik struggles through wheels within wheels to find the root of her problem. Then a relapse plunges Virginia back into the harrowing 'Snake Pit'... ================= cast: Olivia de Havilland .... Virginia Stuart Cunningham Mark Stevens .... Robert Cunningham Leo Genn .... Doctor Mark 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 |
