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.


Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband’s aristocratic social circle.

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper’s Ferry.

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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