Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Well-intentioned film, merit in the way it shows us what psychiatric institutions were like at the time and the fantastic performance of Olivia De Havilland, in the role of Virginia. However, the film fails in how it "solves" the problem of Virginia's disease. After all, even excessive, sequences of Virginia's forgetfulness and confusion, her "cure" is resolved abruptly, very "in haste," and unconvincing. It was worth the director little ability to give credibility to Virginia's improvement through Dr. Kik's psychoanalysis. It was all very fast, the previous development of the film, sometimes even too slow, did not leave this anticipation so fast and implausible based on 1 or 2 flashbacks from when Virginia was a child. Still, a movie that deserves to be seen by the virudes I mentioned above.

Olivia DeHavilland does a remarkable job in this film about a woman who suffers a nervous breakdown and can no longer function. She is placed in an asylum for the mentally deranged/disturbed. We are allowed inside the asylums of that day and see the day to day care of these patients.The acting is fantastic by everyone. Even the actors that have small parts. The direction great. Some of the dialog is of course dated as we don't talk like this anymore. Now we say "yeah, huh, what was that?" But here is a film that really drags you in to the scene. No mind-numbing CGI or computer graphics. This is gritty, hands on filmmaking. Olivia DeHavilland's facial expressions are perfect in every scene. She makes the best of everything she's given. Don't miss this one.

A memorable 1948 film with Olivia DeHavilland giving a N.Y. City film critic winning performance. It would take someone of Jane Wyman's caliber in "Johnny Belinda" to have beaten her out. That was some year for best actress nominees. We also had Barbara Stanwyck, Irene Dunne and Ingrid Bergman for "Sorry Wrong Number," and "I Remember Mama," as well as "Joan of Arc."The film depicts a shocking indictment of our mental hospitals for that period of time.DeHavilland was outstanding here. The various nuances that she showed as a mentally unbalanced person were phenomenal. She got fantastic support from Mark Stevens, her husband in the film as well as Leo Genn, phenomenal as the doctor who understood her.Ruth Donnelly, Beulah Bondi and particularly Betsy Blair were terrific as mentally ill women. Amazing that Celeste Holm, who had won the supporting Oscar the year before for "Gentleman's Agreement," had such a small role in this film.The picture brings out how terrible mental illness can be and the desperation of those trying to get better.As we saw with "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," there are plenty of nurses who should not have been in psychiatric wards.It takes compassion and understanding to unlock the mystery to mental illnesses. The picture aptly did that.

This film presents a very realistic look at mental hospitals in the era it was made. Mainly, this is a great performance by Olivia De'Havilland that really carries a well conceived script & makes it a very good film drama.Natalie Schaefer (Mrs. Thurston Howell III for you fans of Gilligans Island) has a very good small support role in this too. A lot of the rest of the cast is not real well known, but everyone does well in this script about a woman with major problems due too a troubled childhood.Her husband can't help her but finally a Doctor does & at the end of the movie after several setbacks, she finally gets out of the hospital. This movie proves how good an actress Olivia is as the film is more than 95 percent centered on her central character & she carries this film brilliantly. If you get a chance to catch this one, you will not lose anything as this film is very well done.