Behind Locked Doors

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Behind Locked Doors (1948)

NR 09/13/1948 (US) Thriller, Crime 1h 2m

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MURDER was the ONLY way out!

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Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.

Malvin Wald

Screenplay, Story
Budd Boetticher

Director
Eugene Ling

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Top Billed Cast

Lucille Bremer

Kathy Lawrence
Richard Carlson

Ross Stewart
Douglas Fowley

Larson
Ralf Harolde

Fred Hopps
Thomas Browne Henry

Dr. Clifford Porter
Herbert Heyes

Judge Finlay Drake
Gwen Donovan

Madge Bennett
Trevor Bardette

Mr. Purvis - a Patient (uncredited)
Morgan Farley

Mental patient (uncredited)
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on September 9, 2019

I'm not getting myself locked up in any nut-house on some hunch!

Behind Locked Doors is directed by Oscar "Budd" Boetticher and written by Eugene Ling and Malvin Wald. It stars Richard Carlson, Lucille Bremer, Douglas Fowley, Ralf Harolde, Thomas Browne Henry, Herbert Heyes, Gwen Donovan and Tor Johnson. Music is by Irving Friedman and cinematography by Guy Roe.

Private detective Ross Stewart (Carlson) is coerced into going undercover at the La Siesta Sanitarium in search of a corrupt judge that reporter Kathy Lawrence (Bremer) believes is hiding out there. Getting himself committed under... read the rest.

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