The snake pit

Resource Information

The work The snake pit represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The snake pit

Statement of responsibility

20th Century Fox ; Darryl F. Zanuck presents ; screen play by Frank Partos and Millen Brand ; produced by Anatole Litvak and Robert Bassler ; directed by Anatole Litvak

Contributor

• Langan, Glenn, 1917-1991
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974
• Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970
• Craig, Helen, 1912-1986
• Patrick, Lee, 1901-1982
• Solomon, Aubrey
• Spencer, Dorothy, 1909-2002
• Stevens, Mark, 1916-1994
• Tover, Leo, 1902-1964
• Ward, Mary Jane, 1905-1981
• Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979
• Partos, Frank, 1901-1956
• Brand, Millen, 1906-1980
• De Havilland, Olivia
• Erickson, Leif, 1911-1986
• Bondi, Beulah, 1892-1981
• Bassler, Robert, 1903-1975
• Genn, Leo, 1905-1978
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
• Holm, Celeste, 1917-2012

Actor

• Bondi, Beulah, 1892-1981
• De Havilland, Olivia
• Craig, Helen, 1912-1986
• Erickson, Leif, 1911-1986
• Genn, Leo, 1905-1978
• Holm, Celeste, 1917-2012
• Langan, Glenn, 1917-1991
• Patrick, Lee, 1901-1982
• Stevens, Mark, 1916-1994

Director of photography

• Tover, Leo, 1902-1964

Editor of moving image work

• Spencer, Dorothy, 1909-2002

Film director

• Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974

Film producer

• Bassler, Robert, 1903-1975
• Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974

Presenter

• Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979

Screenwriter

• Partos, Frank, 1901-1956
• Brand, Millen, 1906-1980

Subject

• Mentally ill -- Drama
• Mentally ill women -- Medical care -- Drama
• Mentally ill women -- Treatment -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Asylums
• Dramatic films
• Drama
• Asylums -- Drama
• Mentally ill

Genre

• Drama
• Fiction films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Dramatic films
• Film adaptations

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis

Member of

• Studio classic, 19
• Snake pit (Motion picture)
• Snake pit (Motion picture)
• Snake pit (Motion picture)
• Snake pit (Motion picture)

Awards note

Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (20th Century-Fox Sound Dept.)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Director of photography, Leo Tover; music, Alfred Newman; editor, Dorothy Spencer

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

English (stereo or mono), French (mono) or Spanish (mono) dialogue with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.S592 2004

PerformerNote

Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig, Leif Erickson, Beulah Bondi, Lee Patrick

Runtime

108

Series statement

20th Century Fox studio classics

Series volume

19

Technique

live action