Yikes, this was interesting but too depressing. I found the first hour just fine, and Olivia de Havilland does a fine job in the lead role, but to me it wore thin after an hour. The fascination of the mentally ill woman began wearing off and it just got to be too depressing to watch for the second hour. It wasn't just that he was mentally disturbed but she was so unhappy and the mental institution wasn't a bunch of laughs, either. There are a lot of unhappy people in this unhappy story. It's not an easy film to sit through.
Mark Stevens plays de Havilland's patient (meaning long-suffering) husband and Leo Genn is pleasant as the caring doctor.
I don't know how accurate this film is of mental hospitals back then but I doubt you would see a doctor, as was pictured here at a review board session, wave a nasty finger in front of a patient's face. That was unrealistic. No doctor would torment a patient like that in front of all of his peers.
In all, too depressing a melodrama for me but I am sure others would find this very entertaining.
Mark Stevens plays de Havilland's patient (meaning long-suffering) husband and Leo Genn is pleasant as the caring doctor.
I don't know how accurate this film is of mental hospitals back then but I doubt you would see a doctor, as was pictured here at a review board session, wave a nasty finger in front of a patient's face. That was unrealistic. No doctor would torment a patient like that in front of all of his peers.
In all, too depressing a melodrama for me but I am sure others would find this very entertaining.