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...world no longer throws its mentally sick into snake pits, on the theory, once widely held, that an experience which might drive a sane person out of his mind might drive an insane one back into it. But snake pits still exist. The Shame of the States, a recently published, chillingly factual report on conditions in state mental hospitals (see MEDICINE), reveals horrors in the midst of the world's wealthiest, healthiest country which many Americans may refuse to believe. The large, hidden population of the mentally ill lives amid squalor, dirt and creeping fear, in the solitary confinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

That is the shocking theme of The Snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Story. The Snake Pit is the story of Virginia Cunningham (Miss de Havilland) who loses her mind, spends about a year in a state institution, and is released as cured. In the novel, the heroine's illness and its treatment remained undefined. Dramatically compressing the somewhat rambling original story, Scriptwriters Millen (The Outward Room) Brand and Frank Partos added a brand-new doctor and gave the heroine a brand-new case history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...haircut pleading "in the name of the Party" that she is not insane. Then, approximating Virginia Cunningham's own sudden detachment, the camera pulls back & up, gathering the diverse figures in a kind of ballet; pulling higher & higher until the wardful of writhing figures below looks like the snake pit which gives the picture its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...across the point that schizophrenia is something that "can happen to anybody." And Virginia's cure, once she turns the corner, seems suspiciously quick, easy and well-timed for a happy ending (in reality, she might very likely suffer a relapse). But with all its minor faults, The Snake Pit is an important motion picture. One of its notable achievements is that it establishes Olivia de Havilland not so much as a star, a dubious title she already held, but as an actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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