With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Direction
Fuller's crude, expressionist asylum—beauty and ugliness colliding.
Cinematography
Surreal color inserts that blast through the black-and-white nightmare.
Acting
Peter Breck's unraveling—method acting before it was cool.
Director
Samuel Fuller
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