Surprisingly not that cringy and out of touch for a 1950's movie about mental illness.
Marilyn Monroe is really good in it. Also a young and beautiful Anne Bancroft, who would play in the Graduate 15 years later, that I didn't recognize first.
I got a Hitchcock vibe with all that windows frame shot and talking across the courtyard thing going on, only to discover that the director was second assistant on The Lady Vanishes, interesting right.
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Don't Bother to Knock 1952
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