![]() ![]() She can’t sleep and loses touch with reality, as she feels it’s November and snaps when Robert corrects her. They go ahead and marry on May 7, but Virginia acts erratically again. Eventually, Virginia brings up the possibility of marriage but acts weird when Robert talks about doing it in a few weeks she freaks if he won’t get hitched now. After she provides a loose excuse for her absence and departure, they pick up where they left off, though she remains evasive and avoids his desire for marriage. Robert moves to New York and bumps into her again at the Philharmonic. Occasionally she continued to drop by the cafeteria so they get to know each other.ĭespite their blossoming romance, Virginia eventually abruptly leaves town without explanation. He worked for a published who rejected her writing, and they bumped into each other again in the cafeteria. “Kik” (Leo Genn) works with her, and flashbacks show how Virginia and Robert met a few years earlier in Chicago. She hears voices and seems so out of touch with reality that she doesn’t recognize her husband Robert (Mark Stevens).ĭr. We meet Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland), an apparently schizophrenic inmate at a mental institution called the Juniper Hill State Hospital. ![]() In 1948’s The Snake Pit, we get a look at psychiatric care circa the late Forties. Reviewed by Colin Jacobson (May 31, 2004) Sony 36" WEGA KV-36FS12 Monitor Sony DA333ES Processor/Receiver Panasonic CV-50 DVD Player using component outputs Michael Green Revolution Cinema 6i Speakers (all five) Sony SA-WM40 Subwoofer. Audio Commentary with Author and Film Historian Aubrey Solomon.De Havilland's gripping turn as a woman desperately trying to return to normalcy in The Snake Pit is supported with an outstanding ensemble cast, including Leo Genn, Celeste Holm and Mark Stevens. The belief - the shock of the experience will return her to sanity. She is put through a series of brutal treatments, including being forced into close quarters with patients whose disorders far exceed her own. Confusion, doubts about her husband's love, even violent outbursts led Virginia to be confined to a mental institution. Virginia Cunningham (de Havilland) appeared to have an idyllic life - a nice home, a loving husband and prospects for a writing career. Millen Brand, Arthur Laurents, Frank Partos, Mary Jane Ward (novel) Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig, Leif Erickson, Beulah Bondi Review Archive: # | A-C | D-F | G-I | J-L | M-O | P-R | S-U | V-Z | Viewer Ratings | Main ![]() The Snake Pit: Fox Studio Classics (1948) ![]()
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