The Caretakers (1963) is a United Artists feature film starring Joan Crawford and Robert Stack in a story about a mental hospital. The screenplay was adapted by Henry F. Greenberg from a story by Hall Bartlett and Jerry Paris based on the 1959 novel The Caretakers by Dariel Telfer. The film was produced and directed by Bartlett and co-produced by Paris. The Caretakers is reminiscent of the 20th Century Fox mental hospital film The Snake Pit (1948...
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The Caretakers (1963) is a United Artists feature film starring Joan Crawford and Robert Stack in a story about a mental hospital. The screenplay was adapted by Henry F. Greenberg from a story by Hall Bartlett and Jerry Paris based on the 1959 novel The Caretakers by Dariel Telfer. The film was produced and directed by Bartlett and co-produced by Paris. The Caretakers is reminiscent of the 20th Century Fox mental hospital film The Snake Pit (1948).
Young, optimistic psychiatrist Dr. Donovan MacLeod (Stack) wants to prove his theory that mental patients can benefit from group therapy. His method of treatment, with no violence or punishment, is met with a great deal of resistance from unyielding and self-righteous head nurse, Lucretia Terry (Crawford) who believes in traditional methods such as strait-jackets and padded cells for treating the mentally ill. The head of the hospital Dr. Harrington (Herbert Marshall) is weak-willed, and nurse Bracken, Terry's assistant, (Constance Ford)...
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