The Snake Pit
1948VOTE NOW
| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: November 13, 1948 |
Starring:
Beulah Bondi, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig, Howard Freeman, Lee Patrick, Leif Erickson, Leo Genn, Mark Stevens, Olivia de Havilland
Summary:
A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
Certainly The Snake Pit will go down in Hollywood annals as one of the must unusual subjects ever attempted, and what is more to the point, successfully accomplished. It is bold and original — a defiant answer to those who say that our American motion picture creators cannot evolve a mature dramatic subject.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
As Virginia grapples with her inner demons, as well as a memory loss that leaves her disoriented and unsure of who she can trust, The Snake Pit periodically transcends its archaic psychological trappings to become an empathic examination of a woman battling both the internal and external forces that seek to fully erase her sense of self.
Read full review
More From Metacritic
Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
More From The Snake Pit