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The Snake Pit

Name: The Snake Pit
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: 1948-11-04
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 7.106

★ 7,1 /10 (118 Votes)

1948 EN 108 min

Overview

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.

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Release date

04/11/1948

Votes

118

Popularity

1.8

Married and in love... with a man she didn't know or want!

Genres

Drama Mystery

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

108 min

Olivia de Havilland

Virginia Cunningham

Mark Stevens

Robert Cunningham

Leo Genn

Mark Kik

Celeste Holm

Grace

Glenn Langan

Dr. Terry

Helen Craig

Nurse Davis

Leif Erickson

Gordon

Beulah Bondi

Mrs. Greer

Lee Patrick

Asylum Inmate

Howard Freeman

Dr. Curtis

Natalie Schafer

Mrs. Stuart

Ruth Donnelly

Ruth

Katherine Locke

Margaret

Frank Conroy

Jonathan Gifford

Minna Gombell

Miss Hart

June Storey

Miss Bixby (uncredited)

Lora Lee Michel

Six-Year-Old Virginia (uncredited)

Damian O'Flynn

Mr. Stuart (uncredited)

Ann Doran

Valerie (uncredited)

Esther Somers

Nurse Vance (uncredited)

Jacqueline deWit

Celia Sommerville (uncredited)

Betsy Blair

Hester (uncredited)

Lela Bliss

Miss Greene (uncredited)

Queenie Smith

Lola (uncredited)

Virginia Brissac

Miss Seiffert (uncredited)

Grayce Hampton

Inmate Countess (uncredited)

Mary Treen

Nurse Jones (uncredited)

Dorothy Neumann

Champion (uncredited)

Jan Clayton

Singing Inmate (uncredited)

Marie Blake

Asylum Patient (uncredited)

Victoria Horne

Asylum Patient (uncredited)

Doro Merande

Asylum Patient (uncredited)

Barbara Pepper

Asylum Patient (uncredited)

Wanda Perry

Nurse (uncredited)

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Vicky Albright

Two-Year-Old Virginia (uncredited)

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Jean Andren

Nurse (uncredited)

Sylvia Andrew

Patient (uncredited)

Angela Clarke

Greek Patient (uncredited)

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I'll tell you where it's gonna end, Miss Somerville... When there are more sick ones than well ones, the sick ones will lock the well ones up. The Snake Pit is directed by Anatole Litvak and adapted to screenplay by Frank Partos, Millen Brand and Arthur Laurents from the novel written by Mary Jane Ward. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig, Leif Erickson and Beulah Bondi. Music is by Alfred Newman and cinematography by Leo Tover. Olivia de Havilland plays Virginia Stuart Cunningham, and film chronicles Virgina's time and treatment …

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