Strait-Jacket

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Strait-Jacket

1964,

1h 29m,

Horror

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Though still mentally shaky, convicted axe-murderess Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) is released from the asylum where she was sent 20 years ago for slaying her unfaithful husband. Lucy goes to stay at her brother's farm and reconnect with her grown daughter, Carol (Diane Baker), who saw her mother chop her father to pieces as a tot. Carol helps Lucy regain her old glamorous look -- but suspects that history might be repeating itself when anyone who angers her mother turns up hacked to death.

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Daniel Barnes

Dare Daniel

Oct 8, 2022

3.5/5

Strait-Jacket is a middling Psycho meets Gaslight proto-slasher that telegraphs its plot twists more than Western Union. But it’s elevated by Joan Crawford’s remarkably possessed and highly physical turn as an ax murderess returning home from the asylum.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Jun 7, 2021

2.5/4

The twist ending is one of the most obvious ever put on film, but Crawford's campy histrionics and some neat stylistic flourishes make this worthy entertainment.

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Sean Mulvihill

FanboyNation.com

Oct 29, 2018

4/5

In 1964, William Castle would employ the biggest gimmick of his moviemaking career - Joan Crawford as an ax murderer in Strait-Jacket.

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Chris Alexander

Alexander On Film

Aug 30, 2018

(Crawford) may have been mourning her glory days and miserable that the bloom was off her rose, but she remained until the end a major artist and a consummate professional.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Oct 23, 2009

This one has a very high quality of dialogue and performance.

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Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

Mar 9, 2006

3/5

Joan Crawford in a shlocky classic B thriller and all about axe murders.

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William Castle

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Joan Crawford

Lucy Harbin

Diane Baker

Carol Harbin

Leif Erickson

Bill Cutler

Howard St. John

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Synopsis

Though still mentally shaky, convicted axe-murderess Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) is released from the asylum where she was sent 20 years ago for slaying her unfaithful husband. Lucy goes to stay at her brother's farm and reconnect with her grown daughter, Carol (Diane Baker), who saw her mother chop her father to pieces as a tot. Carol helps Lucy regain her old glamorous look -- but suspects that history might be repeating itself when anyone who angers her mother turns up hacked to death.

Director: William Castle
Producer: William Castle
Screenwriter: Robert Bloch
Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Columbia Tristar
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 19, 1964, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Runtime: 1h 29m
Sound Mix: Mono

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