The Snake Pit

About The Snake Pit

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr.

Anatole Litvak's The Snake Pit is a 1948 mystery film. At 108 minutes long, it arrived in November 1948.

Its themes are mental illness, based on memoir or autobiography, memory loss, and asylum.

Olivia de Havilland appears as Virginia Cunningham, Mark Stevens as Robert Cunningham, Leo Genn as Mark Kik, and Celeste Holm as Grace. The screenplay is by Frank Partos and Millen Brand. In the United States it streams on History Vault.

Mad to Be Normal, Twelve Monkeys, and The Living and the Dead make useful companions to The Snake Pit, all filed under mental hospital and schizophrenia. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 118 votes.