Bedlam (film)
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88% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller Producer Val Lewton Language English | 6.9/10 IMDb Director Mark Robson Music director Roy Webb Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer William Hogarth , A Rakes Progress Release date May 10, 1946 (1946-05-10) Cast Boris Karloff (Master George Sims), Anna Lee (Nell Bowen), Billy House (Lord Mortimer), Ian Wolfe (Sidney Long), Richard Fraser (Hanny), Glen Vernon (The Gilded Boy)Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , Jurassic World , John Wick , Blackhat , Taken 3 , Furious 7 Tagline Sensational Secrets of Infamous Mad-house EXPOSED! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bedlam 1946 sensational secrets of infamous mad house
Bedlam (1946) is a film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, and was the last in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures. The film was inspired by William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, and Hogarth was given a writing credit.
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Plot
Set in 1761 in London, the film focuses on events at St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum, a fictionalized version of Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as "Bedlam." After an acquaintance of aristocrat Lord Mortimer dies in an attempt to escape from the asylum, apothecary general Master George Sims (played by Karloff, a fictionalized version of an infamous head physician at Bethlem, John Monro) appeases Mortimer by having his "loonies" put on a show for him. Mortified by the treatment of the patients, Mortimer's protégé Nell Bowen (Lee) seeks the help of Whig politician John Wilkes to reform the asylum. Mortimer and Sims conspire to commit Nell to the asylum, where her initial fears of the fellow inmates do not sway her sympathetic commitment to improving their conditions. Frustrated by Nell's progress with the inmates, Sims threatens her with his strongest "cure" but his attempt is thwarted by the very inmates that Nell helped. Ultimately, Sims is deposed and Nell is rescued by her Quaker friend who had counselled her through the whole process.
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The movie recorded a loss of $40,000.
The film has been released on DVD by Warner Bros. as part of a double release with Isle Of The Dead and as part of the Val Lewton Horror Collection, and features a commentary by film historian Tom Weaver.
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