Mental Hospital - Documentary (1953)
The film gives a portrait of mental health treatment during the 50s, which was the heyday of treating mental patients in big institutions.

A glamorous European countess meets small town America and it’s a novel experience for both. Tongues wag, the gentlemen preen and the town’s moral crusader finds himself unpleasantly in love.


A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right.

The film gives a portrait of mental health treatment during the 50s, which was the heyday of treating mental patients in big institutions.
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