Bedlam (1946)

Directors

Mark Robson

Cast

Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe, Jason Robards Sr., Leyland Hodgson, Joan Newton, Elizabeth Russell, Frankie Dee

The story

It is 1761 in London at St Mary Bethlehem asylum for the mentally ill and an acquaintance of Lord Mortimer dies in an attempt to escape from the asylum. Master George Sims appeases Mortimer by having his "loonies" put on a show for him. Mortified by the treatment of the patients, Mortimer's protégée Nell Bowen seeks his aid, then that of Whig politician John Wilkes to reform the asylum, threatening Sims' corrupt practices.

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