Mental illness seen from the inside—decades before anyone dared to look.
The case of Anne Morton, victim of a schizophrenic breakdown, is recounted in an unusual new psychological film which pictures the operations of a mental hospital through the eyes of a patient.
Direction
Anderson's patient POV technique was genuinely radical for 1951.
Production
Shot in actual mental hospital with real staff cooperation.
Director
Robert Anderson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as The Snake Pit, this was part of a brief post-war wave of 'psychiatric realism' that vanished once Hollywood realized audiences preferred their mental illness dramatized, not documented.
US
