1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) :sd., b&w with col. sequences ;4 3/4 in.
DVD special ed. features include: new, restored high-definition digital transfer; new video interview with star Constance Towers by film historian and filmmaker, Charles Dennis; "The typewriter, the rifle and the movie camera, Adam Simon's 1996 documentary on director Samuel Fuller.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.
Title from container.
Director of photography, Stanley Cortez ; film editor, Jerome Thoms ; music by Paul Dunlap.
Peter Breck, Constance Towers, James Best, Hari Rhodes, Gene Evans, Larry Tucker.
Peter Breck plays a ruthless journalist who believes that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. To glean first-hand information, Breck pretends to go insane and is locked up in the institution. While pursuing his investigation, Breck is sidetracked by the loopy behavior of his fellow inmates. During a hospital riot, Breck is straightjacketed and subjected to shock treatment. By now almost as crazy as he's previously pretended to be, Breck begins imagining that his exotic-dancer girlfriend Constance Towers (a Samuel Fuller "regular") is actually his sister!
PG.
DVD, NTSC; monaural ; widescreen presentation (1.75:1) aspect ratio.
For private home use only.
1.Simon, Adam,--1962---Typewriter, the rifle and the movie camera--Film adaptations.1.Feature films.2.Journalists--Fiction.3.Mental illness--Fiction.4.Psychiatric hospitals--Fiction.5.Thrillers (Motion pictures)Dynamic Details