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The Fifth Floor is a american film of genre Thriller released in USA on 15 november 1978 with Bo Hopkins
The Fifth Floor (1978)
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Add to a movie listThe Fifth Floor is a film about a woman while sane gets sent to an asylum. It starred Dianne Hull, Bo Hopkins and Mel Ferrer.
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The film focuses on Kelly McIntyre, a disco dancer played by Dianne Hull who through no fault of her own, accidentally overdoses on drugs and collapses at a disco. She is misdiagnosed as suicidal and sent to a psychiatric ward which is on the fifth floor of Cedar Springs Hospital. There she finds herself alone with no help, not even from her boyfriend who refuses to get her out of there. She becomes the subject of interest by an unbalanced orderly played by Bo Hopkins.Actors
Bo Hopkins
(Carl)
Dianne Hull
(Kelly McIntyre)
Patti D'Arbanville
(Cathy)
Sharon Farrell
(Melanie)
Robert Englund
(Benny)
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