Back Strait-Jacket Welsh Die Zwangsjacke German Strait-Jacket Finnish La Meurtrière diabolique French 5 corpi senza testa Italian 血だらけの惨劇 Japanese Strait-Jacket Dutch Strait-Jacket Portuguese Смирительная рубашка (фильм) Russian Гамівна сорочка (фільм) Ukrainian
| Strait-Jacket | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | William Castle |
| Written by | Robert Bloch |
| Produced by | William Castle |
| Starring | Joan Crawford |
| Cinematography | Arthur E. Arling |
| Edited by | Edwin H. Bryant |
| Music by | Van Alexander |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | William Castle Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2,195,000 (rentals)[2] |
Strait-Jacket is a 1964 American psychological horror film directed and produced by William Castle, written by Robert Bloch and starring Joan Crawford. Its plot follows a woman who, having murdered her husband and his lover decades prior, is suspected of a series of axe murders following her release from a psychiatric hospital.
Released by Columbia Pictures in January 1964, the film was the first of two written for Castle by Robert Bloch, the second being The Night Walker (1964). The film's plot makes use of the psychological abuse method known as gaslighting.
- ^ "Strait-Jacket". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
- ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965, pg. 39.