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     Bedlam
1946  NR  DRAMA  1h 19min
CAST— Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Ian Wolfe, Richard Fraser, Billy House, Jason Robards, Sr.
MUSIC— Roy Webb  DIRECTOR— Mark Robson  BASED ON— A Rake's Progress (paintings), by William Hogarth

     Madness! Madness! A bewigged Boris Karloff is the director of Bedlam, London’s insane asylum, and he rules with an iron fist. That is until a young noble woman decides to lend a helping hand by providing clean bedding, good food, and proper treatment. But all of this costs money! So, of course the only solution is to have her declared insane and have her locked away in Bedlam. A very simple film (labeled as a horror movie, but serving up more drama than chills), it actually shows a more sympathetic viewpoint of the mentally ill and what they endured in the eighteenth century, the so-called “Age of Reason”.
OUR RATING— ** ½