Word: snake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland, as a schizophrenic, in a realistic story about mental illness (TIME...
Thanks for your reviews of The Snake Pit and Albert Deutsch's The Shame of the States [TIME, Dec. 20]. They both show our need for better facilities and staffing for our mental institutions. Twice I have been resident in Elgin State Hospital (Ill.) as a patient ... It is my belief that mental illness is no more serious than many other of the serious illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and heart trouble...
...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland as a schizophrenic, in a movingly realistic story about mental illness (TIME...
Insane minds have become a favorite study of Hollywood dramas, but the psychological twist has generally been used as modern gloss to the standard boy-meets-girl glamor. In even the best of these, the deranged mind was merely held up as an interesting object to look at. "The Snake Pit," however, void of all hints of Hollywood glamor, achieves the startling effect of entering the diseased mind and reflecting its horrors and fears--its despair in groping in darkness for a ray of light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels...
...Hollywood exaggeration or unreal emotion, although it strains at one touch of sentimentality when the inmates tearfully sing "Going Home" at an asylum dance. Except for this minor defect, the film's purity aids it in revealing the dark horrors of mental disease at the bottom of a snake...