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"A first for Hollywood, ""The Snake Pit"" broke ground with its depiction of life in a mental hospital. When Virginia Stuart awakens to find herself committed to an asylum, she must piece together the events that brought her there; a painstaking process with her tenuous hold on reality..
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The Snake Pit is a startling and stark drama about mental illness, anchored by Olivia de Havilland's extraordinary, Oscar-nominated performance as Virginia, a newlywed succumbing to emerging psychosis. Even by today's standards, this powerful 1948 film, based on an autobiographical novel by Mary Jane Ward and boldly directed by Anatole Litvak (Sorry, Wrong Number), is an unsettling vision of insanity and the horrifying conditions under which the mentally ill are sometimes confined. The script is typical of reductive notions of psychoanalysis found in 1940s American movies, in which enormous instability of the mind is directly linked to childhood repression and guilt. But even if one doesn't take Virginia's condition all that seriously, the actress's portrayal of agony and confusion, and that of scores of supporting players, is stunning to behold. The star is helped immeasurably by a sturdy performance from British actor Leo Genn as a sympathetic psychiatrist. --Tom Keogh
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie concerning mental illness
An excellent dive into mental illness. Still resonates today.
5.0 out of 5 stars A story of a woman's mental illness through the treatment process
Great older movie. Olivia de Havilland was a phenomenal actress and is great in this story about a woman who experiences a nervous breakdown and winds up in the old mental institution. I believe these type movies were made to solicit change in the practices of older mental institutions and to also focus a better understanding on the treatment of mental illness.In the institution, she encounters all sorts of semi-lost souls. Olivia endures some of the old therapies (shock and the water treatment, but with the help of a very kind doctor, who goes above and beyond the norm with her, she manages to begin to uncover and face what lurks in her subconscious mind.Another outstanding performance from the great Olivia, whom you will likely recognize from many older movies, including Gone With the Wind. She played Melanie, wife of Ashley and friend of Scarlett.
5.0 out of 5 stars Should have won the Academy Award
Olivia de Havilland is outstanding, sympathetic and convincing. Mark Stevens and Leo Genn are also well cast. It shows the sheer size of state insane asylums in this time period as well as the primary use of electroshock therapy.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good old movie
Shows the horrors of mental institutions years ago. Olivia de Havilland did an excellent job.
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT MOVIE
One of my mom & I's Favorites
5.0 out of 5 stars A groundbreaking movie that changed the way we think about mental health
This is one of my favorite classic movies ever made! I'm a gigantic Olivia de Havilland fan and this movie only cements my love for her and her movies! The plot follows a woman named Virginia Cunningham, who finds herself in an insane asylum after having a nervous breakdown. Over the course of her treatment, we learn things about her life through the help of her physician, Dr. Kik. The title, interestingly enough, stems from an ancient practice of dealing with the mentally ill where they were thrown into a pit of snakes. The theory was that something like that would make a normal person insane, therefore it must work in reverse. Much of the film was filmed in the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in California. The film has come under certain fire from some women's rights authors for a seeming misportrayal of Virginia's difficulties and the implication that accepting a subservient role as a wife and mother is part of her "cure." If you're willing to look past this, then I'm sure you'll love it!
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
A must see classic for anyone interested in Mental Health. Very well portrayed on how Psych units were at one time. We've come a long way in Mental Health but have a long way to go. Though the procedure for ECT has evolved over the years the effects have not. There are those that still believe this is a barbaric form of treatment, but it is one of the safest and effective treatments available in the treatment for certain mental illnesses. It's ashame that there still is a stigma regarding mental illness, when it is no different than someone who suffers from diabetes. Both are treatable diseases
3.0 out of 5 stars This movie scared me to death when I was a kid.
This movie was scary that this could be health care is beyond scary. No wonder it scared me to death as a child. It scared me as an adult too.
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 in the Juniper Hill Mental Institution."It was strange, here I was among all those people, and at the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away, the whole place seemed to me like a deep hole and the people down in it like strange animals, like... like snakes, and I've been thrown into it... yes... as though... as though I were in a snake pit..."It's still today one of the most potent and important screen explorations of mental illness and its treatment. Backed by an astonishing performance by de Havilland, Litvak and an initially sceptical Darryl F. Zanuck (20th Century Fox supremo), led the way in bringing to the masses the subject and to treat it with stark realism. Quite often it's harrowing as entertainment, with Virgina's fractured mind laid bare under duress of treatments now seen as antiquated.It's true enough to say that some of the story features simplistic motives and means, these come as a product of the time the picture was made. But with Litvak (Sorry, Wrong Number) and his principal crew members researching the subject thoroughly, the end result is an incredible blend of dramatic heartfelt suspense and rays of humanistic hope. As Virginia weaves her way through this maze of psychological discord, with flashbacks constantly adding layers to the character's make up, Litvak presents a fascinating portrait of asylum life and the people who resided there, both as patients and staff.Some scenes are brilliantly crafted, either as visual expansions of the story or as shards of light in a dark world. One sequence sees Litvak track "dancing" silhouettes on a wall, and to then do a pull away shot upwards to reveal Virginia in the snake pit, the impact is stark in its magnificence. Another sequence takes place at a dance for the patients, where a rendition of Antonín Dvorák's "Goin' Home" turns into something quite beautiful, a unison of profound optimism that strikes the heart like the calm after a storm.Leo Tover's (The Day The Earth Stood Still) crisp black and white photography is perfectly in sync with the material, and Newman's (Wuthering Heights) magnificent score bounces around the institution like a spectral observer. With de Havilland doing her tour de force, it could be easy to forget the great work of Genn and Stevens, the former is a bastion of assured calmness as Dr. Mark Kik, the latter as Virgina's husband Robert underplays it to perfection and he gives us a character to root for wholesale.It has to be viewed in the context of the era it was made, but its influence on future movies and awareness of mental health treatments in the real world should not be understated. A brilliant production that demands to be seen. 9/10
Livvi !!!
Olivia deHavilland und eine ihrer Höchstleistungen. Eine schwierige Rolle, ein heikles Thema ... ein sehr gut ausgearbeiteter Film in jeder Hinsicht: Kamera, Kostüme, Dialoge, stechen hervor.Trotz des harten Themas deprimiert der Film nicht, sondern behält Lebensfreude und Ironie im Auge.
A FAVORITE MOVIE OF THE TRANSITIONAL ERA IN HOLLYWOOD
A FAVORITE MOVIE OF THE TRANSITIONAL ERA IN HOLLYWOOD. MISS DE HAVILLAND DELIVERS AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE AS SHE OFTEN SHOWED. THE STORY OF THE INNER LIFE OF A PATIENT IN AN INSANE ASYLUM WHO HAS A NARROW ESCAPE LEAVING EVEN AFTER DEMONSTRATING IMPROVEMENT GREAT ENOUGH FOR HER RELEASE BEFORE HER EVENTUAL FREEDOM. ALSO THE VARIABLE TYPES OF PROBLEMS AND BEHAVIORS/ INTERACTIONS OF THE ILL RESIDENTS AND CRUELTY OF SOME OF THOSE IN CHARGE, THE FIGHT FOR RIGHTS ILLUSTRATED IN AGNES MOOREHEAD'S EXCELLENT WORK. SHOCKING AND REVEALING ESPECIALLY AT THE TIME OF ITS PRODUCTION,. FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN TODAY'S WORLD AS WE ALSO READ OF INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS IN HOMES FOR THE AGED
Sad, but without sentimentality.
I see from the reviews so far that there is only one award of five stars. How can one make a thorough assessment of this film without a background knowledge in mental health? I could refer to my own career when, as a student, I worked my vacations in various hospitals as orderly, porter, and theatre technician. A very close friend did likewise, spending six weeks as a cleaner in a mental hospital (now closed) that was well known to me from the outside, its gaunt towers breaking the horizon as seen from the playingfield where we children attempted a normal childhood in the suburbs of Greater London during WW2. What I am really trying to say is that one's experience in any environment will depend upon the perspective from which one makes their observations. I worked in eleven different hospital establishments in the 1950/60s, no two were remotely alike.In this film (from 1948) which is not for the weak of heart, de Havilland plays the part of a mentally deranged young lady (Virginia Cunningham) who, having reached a crisis point in her life, is consigned to an institution for the mentally sick. Her treatment there is mainly in the hands of Dr. Mark Kik, played with measured calm by Leo Genn. As in "Green for Danger", Genn is portrayed (though lower key here) as an obvious target for female infatuation. Only at the very end of the film does de Havvialnd indicate she had been in love with the man. But now, of course, it doesn't matter for she is on the point of release from the institution and to be reunited with her devoted husband (Robert Cunningham, played by Mark Stevens) waiting for her outside the building.Inevitably there are frequent flashbacks in the life of Virginia, some harrowing especially from her childhood, where she loses her father and for which she appears to blame herself. Gradually a picture unfolds that seeks to explain her predicament. Simplistic? Not entirely; then this is not the whole story anyway since it is obvious the film seeks to give some insight into the manifest problems inherent in the treatment of the mentally ill. (One obvious question would be how on earth can one hope for a solution when so many disparate souls are locked up together inside a building for long periods?) One has to say the film makes a brave attempt at the impossible with the result that at the end we should not be entirely dissatisfied.Interesting incidents, in passing, date the film all to the good, incidentally. Thus, the reference to a concert in which Brahms's First Symphony is to be performed, and the rating of the months of May (May 7th, Brahms's birthday) and October as significant to Virginia's decline. Towards the end of the film a large gathering within the institution is treated to a dance with a small ensemble playing on stage. This concludes with an affecting adaptation of the principle theme from the slow movement of Mendelssohn's well known Violin Concerto in E minor set to words sung by a soloist and followed by the audience. Sad, but without sentimentality.Those who admire de Havilland's performance in this film might care to see her in another tragic role, along with Montgomery Clift, in "The Heiress" (1949). The Heiress [DVD]
The snake pit-a ward in the asylum
Hello ! This movie -The snake pit - means a ward in the asylum. Olivia de Havilland is actinga woman,who is in deep trouble. But with support from her husband and a sympathetic doctor,she finally recovers.Thanks !Regatds/Christer.
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Imported From: United States
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Description:
"A first for Hollywood, ""The Snake Pit"" broke ground with its depiction of life in a mental hospital. When Virginia Stuart awakens to find herself committed to an asylum, she must piece together the events that brought her there; a painstaking process with her tenuous hold on reality..
Set Contains:
The Snake Pit is a startling and stark drama about mental illness, anchored by Olivia de Havilland's extraordinary, Oscar-nominated performance as Virginia, a newlywed succumbing to emerging psychosis. Even by today's standards, this powerful 1948 film, based on an autobiographical novel by Mary Jane Ward and boldly directed by Anatole Litvak (Sorry, Wrong Number), is an unsettling vision of insanity and the horrifying conditions under which the mentally ill are sometimes confined. The script is typical of reductive notions of psychoanalysis found in 1940s American movies, in which enormous instability of the mind is directly linked to childhood repression and guilt. But even if one doesn't take Virginia's condition all that seriously, the actress's portrayal of agony and confusion, and that of scores of supporting players, is stunning to behold. The star is helped immeasurably by a sturdy performance from British actor Leo Genn as a sympathetic psychiatrist. --Tom Keogh
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie concerning mental illness
An excellent dive into mental illness. Still resonates today.
5.0 out of 5 stars A story of a woman's mental illness through the treatment process
Great older movie. Olivia de Havilland was a phenomenal actress and is great in this story about a woman who experiences a nervous breakdown and winds up in the old mental institution. I believe these type movies were made to solicit change in the practices of older mental institutions and to also focus a better understanding on the treatment of mental illness.In the institution, she encounters all sorts of semi-lost souls. Olivia endures some of the old therapies (shock and the water treatment, but with the help of a very kind doctor, who goes above and beyond the norm with her, she manages to begin to uncover and face what lurks in her subconscious mind.Another outstanding performance from the great Olivia, whom you will likely recognize from many older movies, including Gone With the Wind. She played Melanie, wife of Ashley and friend of Scarlett.
5.0 out of 5 stars Should have won the Academy Award
Olivia de Havilland is outstanding, sympathetic and convincing. Mark Stevens and Leo Genn are also well cast. It shows the sheer size of state insane asylums in this time period as well as the primary use of electroshock therapy.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good old movie
Shows the horrors of mental institutions years ago. Olivia de Havilland did an excellent job.
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT MOVIE
One of my mom & I's Favorites
5.0 out of 5 stars A groundbreaking movie that changed the way we think about mental health
This is one of my favorite classic movies ever made! I'm a gigantic Olivia de Havilland fan and this movie only cements my love for her and her movies! The plot follows a woman named Virginia Cunningham, who finds herself in an insane asylum after having a nervous breakdown. Over the course of her treatment, we learn things about her life through the help of her physician, Dr. Kik. The title, interestingly enough, stems from an ancient practice of dealing with the mentally ill where they were thrown into a pit of snakes. The theory was that something like that would make a normal person insane, therefore it must work in reverse. Much of the film was filmed in the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in California. The film has come under certain fire from some women's rights authors for a seeming misportrayal of Virginia's difficulties and the implication that accepting a subservient role as a wife and mother is part of her "cure." If you're willing to look past this, then I'm sure you'll love it!
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
A must see classic for anyone interested in Mental Health. Very well portrayed on how Psych units were at one time. We've come a long way in Mental Health but have a long way to go. Though the procedure for ECT has evolved over the years the effects have not. There are those that still believe this is a barbaric form of treatment, but it is one of the safest and effective treatments available in the treatment for certain mental illnesses. It's ashame that there still is a stigma regarding mental illness, when it is no different than someone who suffers from diabetes. Both are treatable diseases
3.0 out of 5 stars This movie scared me to death when I was a kid.
This movie was scary that this could be health care is beyond scary. No wonder it scared me to death as a child. It scared me as an adult too.
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 in the Juniper Hill Mental Institution."It was strange, here I was among all those people, and at the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away, the whole place seemed to me like a deep hole and the people down in it like strange animals, like... like snakes, and I've been thrown into it... yes... as though... as though I were in a snake pit..."It's still today one of the most potent and important screen explorations of mental illness and its treatment. Backed by an astonishing performance by de Havilland, Litvak and an initially sceptical Darryl F. Zanuck (20th Century Fox supremo), led the way in bringing to the masses the subject and to treat it with stark realism. Quite often it's harrowing as entertainment, with Virgina's fractured mind laid bare under duress of treatments now seen as antiquated.It's true enough to say that some of the story features simplistic motives and means, these come as a product of the time the picture was made. But with Litvak (Sorry, Wrong Number) and his principal crew members researching the subject thoroughly, the end result is an incredible blend of dramatic heartfelt suspense and rays of humanistic hope. As Virginia weaves her way through this maze of psychological discord, with flashbacks constantly adding layers to the character's make up, Litvak presents a fascinating portrait of asylum life and the people who resided there, both as patients and staff.Some scenes are brilliantly crafted, either as visual expansions of the story or as shards of light in a dark world. One sequence sees Litvak track "dancing" silhouettes on a wall, and to then do a pull away shot upwards to reveal Virginia in the snake pit, the impact is stark in its magnificence. Another sequence takes place at a dance for the patients, where a rendition of Antonín Dvorák's "Goin' Home" turns into something quite beautiful, a unison of profound optimism that strikes the heart like the calm after a storm.Leo Tover's (The Day The Earth Stood Still) crisp black and white photography is perfectly in sync with the material, and Newman's (Wuthering Heights) magnificent score bounces around the institution like a spectral observer. With de Havilland doing her tour de force, it could be easy to forget the great work of Genn and Stevens, the former is a bastion of assured calmness as Dr. Mark Kik, the latter as Virgina's husband Robert underplays it to perfection and he gives us a character to root for wholesale.It has to be viewed in the context of the era it was made, but its influence on future movies and awareness of mental health treatments in the real world should not be understated. A brilliant production that demands to be seen. 9/10
Livvi !!!
Olivia deHavilland und eine ihrer Höchstleistungen. Eine schwierige Rolle, ein heikles Thema ... ein sehr gut ausgearbeiteter Film in jeder Hinsicht: Kamera, Kostüme, Dialoge, stechen hervor.Trotz des harten Themas deprimiert der Film nicht, sondern behält Lebensfreude und Ironie im Auge.
A FAVORITE MOVIE OF THE TRANSITIONAL ERA IN HOLLYWOOD
A FAVORITE MOVIE OF THE TRANSITIONAL ERA IN HOLLYWOOD. MISS DE HAVILLAND DELIVERS AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE AS SHE OFTEN SHOWED. THE STORY OF THE INNER LIFE OF A PATIENT IN AN INSANE ASYLUM WHO HAS A NARROW ESCAPE LEAVING EVEN AFTER DEMONSTRATING IMPROVEMENT GREAT ENOUGH FOR HER RELEASE BEFORE HER EVENTUAL FREEDOM. ALSO THE VARIABLE TYPES OF PROBLEMS AND BEHAVIORS/ INTERACTIONS OF THE ILL RESIDENTS AND CRUELTY OF SOME OF THOSE IN CHARGE, THE FIGHT FOR RIGHTS ILLUSTRATED IN AGNES MOOREHEAD'S EXCELLENT WORK. SHOCKING AND REVEALING ESPECIALLY AT THE TIME OF ITS PRODUCTION,. FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN TODAY'S WORLD AS WE ALSO READ OF INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS IN HOMES FOR THE AGED
Sad, but without sentimentality.
I see from the reviews so far that there is only one award of five stars. How can one make a thorough assessment of this film without a background knowledge in mental health? I could refer to my own career when, as a student, I worked my vacations in various hospitals as orderly, porter, and theatre technician. A very close friend did likewise, spending six weeks as a cleaner in a mental hospital (now closed) that was well known to me from the outside, its gaunt towers breaking the horizon as seen from the playingfield where we children attempted a normal childhood in the suburbs of Greater London during WW2. What I am really trying to say is that one's experience in any environment will depend upon the perspective from which one makes their observations. I worked in eleven different hospital establishments in the 1950/60s, no two were remotely alike.In this film (from 1948) which is not for the weak of heart, de Havilland plays the part of a mentally deranged young lady (Virginia Cunningham) who, having reached a crisis point in her life, is consigned to an institution for the mentally sick. Her treatment there is mainly in the hands of Dr. Mark Kik, played with measured calm by Leo Genn. As in "Green for Danger", Genn is portrayed (though lower key here) as an obvious target for female infatuation. Only at the very end of the film does de Havvialnd indicate she had been in love with the man. But now, of course, it doesn't matter for she is on the point of release from the institution and to be reunited with her devoted husband (Robert Cunningham, played by Mark Stevens) waiting for her outside the building.Inevitably there are frequent flashbacks in the life of Virginia, some harrowing especially from her childhood, where she loses her father and for which she appears to blame herself. Gradually a picture unfolds that seeks to explain her predicament. Simplistic? Not entirely; then this is not the whole story anyway since it is obvious the film seeks to give some insight into the manifest problems inherent in the treatment of the mentally ill. (One obvious question would be how on earth can one hope for a solution when so many disparate souls are locked up together inside a building for long periods?) One has to say the film makes a brave attempt at the impossible with the result that at the end we should not be entirely dissatisfied.Interesting incidents, in passing, date the film all to the good, incidentally. Thus, the reference to a concert in which Brahms's First Symphony is to be performed, and the rating of the months of May (May 7th, Brahms's birthday) and October as significant to Virginia's decline. Towards the end of the film a large gathering within the institution is treated to a dance with a small ensemble playing on stage. This concludes with an affecting adaptation of the principle theme from the slow movement of Mendelssohn's well known Violin Concerto in E minor set to words sung by a soloist and followed by the audience. Sad, but without sentimentality.Those who admire de Havilland's performance in this film might care to see her in another tragic role, along with Montgomery Clift, in "The Heiress" (1949). The Heiress [DVD]
The snake pit-a ward in the asylum
Hello ! This movie -The snake pit - means a ward in the asylum. Olivia de Havilland is actinga woman,who is in deep trouble. But with support from her husband and a sympathetic doctor,she finally recovers.Thanks !Regatds/Christer.
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