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Strait-Jacket (1964)

NR 01/19/1964 Thriller, Horror, Drama 1h 33m
66%
User
Score
6.8/10
89%

WARNING! 'Strait-Jacket' vividly depicts ax murders!

Overview

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

Robert Bloch

Screenplay

William Castle

Director

Top Billed Cast

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

Lucy Harbin

Diane Baker

Diane Baker

Carol Harbin

Leif Erickson

Leif Erickson

Bill Cutler

Howard St. John

Howard St. John

Raymond Fields

John Anthony Hayes

John Anthony Hayes

Michael Fields

Rochelle Hudson

Rochelle Hudson

Emily Cutler

George Kennedy

George Kennedy

Leo Krause

Edith Atwater

Edith Atwater

Mrs. Fields

Mitchell Cox

Mitchell Cox

Dr. Anderson

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Media

David DeCouteau on STRAIT JACKET

David DeCouteau on STRAIT JACKET

Strait-Jacket (1964) Trailer

Strait-Jacket (1964) Trailer

Joan Crawford Wardrobe/Makeup Test for Strait-Jacket (1964)

Joan Crawford Wardrobe/Makeup Test for Strait-Jacket (1964)

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on November 30, 2014

Lucy Harbin took an axe, gave her husband 40 whacks…..
…..when she saw what she had done, she gave his girlfriend 41.

Strait-Jacket is produced and directed by William Castle and written by Robert Bloch. It stars Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John, Rochelle Hudson and George Kennedy. Music is by Van Alexander and cinematography by Arthur E. Arling.

Lucy Harbin (Crawford) has spent 20 years in a mental asylum for the brutal axe murders of her husband and his mistress. Released back into society, Lucy goes to live at the farm of her brother Bill (Erickson), where Lucy's grown up daughter Carol (Baker) also resides. Pretty soon, though, Lucy is plagued by horrible visions and begins to hear upsetting things, and now it seems that the people she is coming int...

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