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Strait-Jacket is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Castle released in USA on 19 january 1964 with Joan Crawford
Strait-Jacket (1964)
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Add to a movie listStrait-Jacket is a 1964 American thriller film starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a series of axe-murders. Released by Columbia Pictures, the film was directed and produced by William Castle, and co-produced by Dona Holloway. The screenplay was the first of two written for Castle by Robert Bloch, the second being The Night Walker (1964). Strait-Jacket marks the first big-screen appearance of Lee Majors in the uncredited role of Crawford's husband.
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Lucy Harbin has spent twenty years in a psychiatric hospital for the decapitation axe-murder of her husband (Lee Majors) and his mistress, after catching him cheating on her. After she is released, she takes up residence at the farm of her brother Bill Cutler and sister-in-law Emily.Actors
Joan Crawford
(Lucy Harbin)
Diane Baker
(Carol Harbin)
Leif Erickson
(Bill Cutler)
Rochelle Hudson
(Emily Cutler)
George Kennedy
(Leo Krause)
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