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Strait-Jacket
Sign in to saveStrait-Jacket is a 1964 American psychological horror film directed and produced by William Castle, written by Robert Bloch and starring Joan Crawford. Its plot follows a woman who, having murdered her husband and his lover 20 years prior, is suspected of a series of axe murders following her release from a psychiatric hospital.
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6.5After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Cast
- Joan Crawford as Lucy Harbin
- Diane Baker as Carol Harbin
- Leif Erickson as Bill Cutler
- Howard St. John as Raymond Fields
- John Anthony Hayes as Michael Fields
- Rochelle Hudson as Emily Cutler
Themes
- parent child relationship
- asylum
- axe murder
- mother daughter reunion
- proto-slasher
- mother daughter relationship
- hagsploitation
- ax
- psycho-biddy
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Strait-Jacket
- Film.image
- Rsz strait-jacketposter.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- William Castle
- Film.producer
- William Castle
- Film.writer
- Robert Bloch
- Film.starring
- Joan Crawford
- Film.music
- Van Alexander
- Film.cinematography
- Arthur E. Arling
- Film.editing
- Edwin H. Bryant
- Film.color_process
- Black and white
- Film.studio
- William Castle Productions
- Film.distributor
- Columbia Pictures
- Film.runtime
- 93 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
- Film.gross
- $2,195,000 (rentals)
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 89
- FilmAffinity ID
- 370364
- Image
- Strait-Jacket (1964) trailer 1.jpg
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- publication date
- 1964-01-01
- title
- Strait-Jacket
- review score
- 89%
- Commons category
- Strait-Jacket
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Strait-Jacket is a 1964 American psychological horror film directed and produced by William Castle, written by Robert Bloch and starring Joan Crawford. Its plot follows a woman who, having murdered her husband and his lover 20 years prior, is suspected of a series of axe murders following her release from a psychiatric hospital.
Released by Columbia Pictures in January 1964, the film was the first of two written for Castle by Bloch, the second being The Night Walker (1964). It was promoted with the tagline "Keep saying to yourself - It's only a film... It's only a film... It's only a film...".