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Strait-Jacket (1964)
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Poor Joan Crawford just can't get a break. She hacks her husband to pieces and is sent away to a mental hospital; then after she comes back and tries to adjust to a normal life, there's more ax-swinging and more noggins rolling. Her pretty sculptress daughter (Diane Baker) just wants Mom to return to society and a happy, well-adjusted life... or does she? The plot is a little trite and predictable, the direction a bit staid, but it's all Joan's show anyway. Obviously director William Castle told her to play up her character's insanity, and Crawford turns the knob on the acting meter up to 10, then breaks it off and throws it away. She...
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| Strait-Jacket Movie Review by Bennie (10/21/2009) |
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I caught this one last night on Turner Classic Movies. They were showing a William Castle marathon, to celebrate the William Castle DVD Collection, which came out yesterday.
Strait-Jacket is actually an early slasher movie with some surprising violence. No, the violence isn't near as over the top as in today's slasher...
(complete Strait-Jacket review by Bennie)
Chop-Chop-Chop....
Do you like Nursery Rhymes?....... Sure you do. Well, get a load of this really cute one from the movie STRAIT-JACKET. It'll have you in pieces............
Lucy Max took an axe......
And gave her husband 40 whacks.........
When she saw what she had done......
She gave his girlfriend 41!!
Now, isn't...
(complete Strait-Jacket review by CowboyJunkie)
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