Strait-Jacket ( Strait Jacket )

Strait-Jacket (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Alternate Title: Strait Jacket
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
89 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1964 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
William Castle

Written By:
Robert Bloch

Actors:
Joan Crawford ..... Lucy Harbin
Diane Baker ..... Carol Harbin
Leif Erickson ..... Bill Cutler
Howard St. John ..... Raymond Fields
John Anthony Hayes ..... Michael Fields
Rochelle Hudson ..... Emily Cutler
George Kennedy ..... Leo Krause
Edith Atwater ..... Mrs. Alison Fields
Mitchell Cox ..... Dr. Anderson

Synopsis:

When Lucy Harbin arrives early from a trip, she sees her husband with his mistress sleeping in her bed, so she kills them with an ax. Her little daughter Carol witnesses the murder. After twenty years in an asylum, Lucy is released by her Dr. Anderson and her brother Bill Cutler brings her back to her farm where he lives with his wife and Carol. Lucy meets her estranged daughter and she learns that she is going steady with the wealthy Michael Fields. Soon Lucy has nightmares and hears children singing a pejorative song about her. When Dr. Anderson unexpectedly visits her at home, she shows that she is unbalanced and the doctor decides to take her back to the asylum. However he is axed in the barn. Is Lucy killing again?

Twenty years after being sent to a mental institution for having killed her husband and his lover with an axe, Lucy Harbin is released. She returns to her brother Bill Cutler's farm where she is reunited with her now adult daughter Carol. Soon after her arrival however, there are a number of strange occurrences. She begins to hear voices and wakes up seeing a bloody axe in her room which subsequently vanishes. Carol is very protective of her mother who is uncomfortable in the presence of strangers but her situation apparently deteriorates. Things get more serious when one of Lucy's doctors from the asylum visits but the disappears. Has Lucy started killing again?

Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. While trying to renew ties with Carol, who is now a young woman about to be married, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her past?

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 08 July, 2013.

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