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Name: Strait-Jacket
Released: 1964-1-19
Cast: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John

Strait-Jacket

NR
1h 33m
1964

89%

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A crazed axe murderer, released after spending 20 years in a mental institution for lopping the heads off her husband and his lover, returns home to her daughter, who witnessed the slayings as a three-year-old. Shortly after her return, heads begin to roll again, with all the evidence pointing to the woman, who begins to think she's gone insane.

Director:

William Castle

Cast:

Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Reviews

Dare Daniel

Daniel Barnes

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.

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.

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

(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.

August 30, 2018

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Combustible Celluloid

Jeffrey M. Anderson

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

June 21, 2017

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