Behind Locked Doors
MURDER was the ONLY way out!
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9/13/1948Runtime
62 minsOverview
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.
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A claustrophobic noir thriller where a detective goes undercover in an asylum to expose a corrupt judge, trapping himself in a maze of madness and moral ambiguity. The paranoia is thick and the stakes feel genuinely dangerous.
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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)
Kathleen Freeman
Nurse (uncredited)
Dickie Moore
Mental patient (uncredited)
Tor Johnson
'The Champ', a patient (uncredited)
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