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Strait-Jacket (1964)

WARNING! 'Strait-Jacket' vividly depicts ax murders!

6.5(134)1h 33mJanuary 19, 1964

Thriller Horror Drama

William Castle

Director

Robert Bloch

Writer

Rate

Diary

Overview

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

Cast

Joan Crawford

Lucy Harbin

Diane Baker

Carol Harbin

Leif Erickson

Bill Cutler

Howard St. John

Raymond Fields

Strait-Jacket · Cinemalant

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John Anthony Hayes

Michael Fields

Rochelle Hudson

Emily Cutler

George Kennedy

Leo Krause

Edith Atwater

Mrs. Fields

Lee Majors

Frank Harbin (uncredited)

Patricia Crest

Stella Fulton (uncredited)

Vicki Cos

Carol Harbin - Age 3 (uncredited)

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Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: January 19, 1964
Production: William Castle Productions, Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America

Keywords

parent child relationshipasylumaxe murdermother daughter reunionproto-slashermother daughter relationshiphagsploitationaxpsycho-biddy

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