Storyline

Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...—David Levene

Plot Keywords

mental institution, psychotronic film, independent film, racial slur, mental breakdown, melodrama, b movie, insanity, urban setting, neo noir, mental patient, undercover, psychiatrist, mental asylum, male singer, playing piano, acoustic guitar, dormitory, fight, whistling

Short Review

This 1963 film is harsh, grotesque, and violent-and, incidentally, brilliant in a very original way.

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