Straitjacket is produced and directed by william castle and written by robert bloch. Strait jacket 1964 stars joan crawford, diane baker, george kennedy, and lee majors. It hadnt started out that way, but when he got the opportunity to cast joan crawford in the female lead, he jumped at the chance to elevate the reputation. Persuaded by daughter carol diane baker that shes ready to meet her potential inlaws, recovering axemurderess lucy joan crawford travels with brother bill leif erickson and his wife emily rochelle hudson, in william castles strait jacket, 1964. Joan crawford wardrobe makeup test for straitjacket 1964 duration. In 1964, william castle would employ the biggest gimmick of his movie making career joan crawford as an ax murderer in strait jacket. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. Free after twenty years in an asylum, she is reunited with her beloved daughter, now an adult. Straitjacket 1964 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Strait jacket 1964 title sequence typography the columbia pictures logo at the end of the movie has the torch ladys head chopped off and placed at her feet. Basically the movie is about a woman who spent 20 years in an. Straitjacket half sheet movie poster joan crawford 1964. Crawford may have been mourning her glory days and miserable that the bloom was off her rose, but she remained until the end a major artist and a consummate professional.
Music is by van alexander and cinematography by arthur e. She is released twenty years later, and soon the axe murders start up again. Straitjacket is a 1964 american horror thriller film starring joan crawford and diane baker in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a series of axemurders. This auction is for an original 22 x 28 half sheet movie poster from 1964 for strait jacket starring joan crawford, diane baker and leif erickson. Enraged and unhinged, she takes up an axe, quietly creeps into the bedroom, and not realizing that her daughter was watching, beheads them both. Strait jacket 1964 tt0058620 after a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour. Joan crawfords bizarre screentests for straitjacket, 1964. She falls into madness and kills them both, and her daughter sees everything. William castles strait jacket, starring joan crawford, falls in this category. Straitjacket 1964 stars joan crawford, diane baker, george kennedy, and lee majors. Strait jacket 1964 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Tagline for straitjacket william castle made his first foray into what playwright sky gilbert has called the gothic horror aged star comeback flick with the 1964 shocker straitjacket.
Joan crawford wardrobemakeup test for straitjacket 1964 duration. Music by van alexander joan crawford and other older actresses, including bette davis and barbara stanwyck, made numerous horror movies throughout the 1960s. Straitjacket 1964 fantastic movie musings and ramblings. After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour. It is twenty years later, and carol is opening up about her past to her boyfriend, michael fields. After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. Here is ms crawford trying out her makeup for the role of suspected axmurderer lucy harbin. Straitjacket tells the story of lucy harbin crawford, who comes home one night to find her husband lee majors in bed with another woman.
Basically the movie is about a woman who spent 20 years in an insane. Lucy habin joan crawford surprises her husband with another woman. Joan crawford looks pretty convincing as just released from the looney bin axe murderess lucy harbin in strait jacket 1964. It stars joan crawford, diane baker, leif erickson, howard st. Straitjacket is a 1964 american horrorthriller film starring joan crawford and diane baker in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a series of. A female voice over narrates a flashback where we see young married man frank harbin an uncredited lee majors in his first movie role drinking at a roadhouse bar with an old girlfriend. In 1964, william castle would employ the biggest gimmick of his moviemaking career joan crawford as an ax murderer in straitjacket. Straitjacket 2004 though still mentally shaky, convicted axemurderess lucy harbin joan crawford is released from the asylum where she was sent 20 years ago for slaying her unfaithful husband. Straitjacket approved 1h 33min drama, horror, thriller 19 january 1964 usa after a twentyyear stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Joan crawford went on to star in producerdirector william castles contribution to the genre, straitjacket 1964, as the axemurderer of her husband and his mistress. After spending 20 years in an asylum, shes is considered recovered and released.
The 1964 cultclassic axmurder movie straitjacketin which crawford plays the lead roletouches on each of her dual identities. Straitjacket 1964 movie clip shes dying to meet you. The artwork is really cool on this poster with a tag line warning, strait jacket vividly depicts ax murders. Twenty years earlier her daughter witnessed lucy lopping off her lovers head with an axe, and when she returns home she finds history repeating itself when several more victims turn up minus their noggin. Reproduction image size varies based on original poster dimension ratios. Film legend joan crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer. The people at scream factory have made their name releasing special edition blurays of horror movies primarily from the 80s and 90s, the decades that. I enjoy this film for many reasons, including how it captures riverside, california in the 1960s. He never thought that he would initiate a genre unto itself, by the name of hagsplotation or the grand guignol cinema. Movies like the lodgers movies like truth or dare movies like let the right one in. He also knew how to center a star within a scene and within a movie, that all drama is. Starting with whatever happened to baby jane in 1962, a slew of psychobiddy movies hit the silver screen. The story is clever enough to keep you watching, and the ending sequence is crazy enough to worth sitting through the movie if nothing else watch it for crawford. After the success of what ever happened to baby jane 1962, joan crawford was inevitably.
Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. His wife lucy harbin joan crawford is out of town on business. Joan crawford has picked some lemons, some very sour lemons, in her day, but nigh the worst of the lot is strait jacket, in which she showed up at neighborhood theaters yesterday. Strait jacket is a 1964 horror film starring joan crawford in a terrifying tale about a woman invited to live on a farm after serving a long prison sentence for a grizzly murder, where the. Because this is a reproduction of an original poster it will feature the same characteristics as the original. Joan crawford strikes a match in a great scene from straitjacket 1964. In this chilling bloodtale in psycho style, robert bloch modernizes. Joan crawford was the widow of alfred steele, who had been ceo of the pepsicola company, and at the time of filming crawford, still on the board of directors, demanded that product placement shots be included in all of her films of this era. In the kitchen scenes at the beginning of the movie, a carton of pepsicola is prominently displayed on the counter.
Joan crawford went on to star in producerdirector william castles contribution to the genre, straitjacket 1964, as the axemurderer of her husband and his. Straitjacket 1964 tuesdays overlooked film tipping my fedora. In 1964, joan crawford starred in bmovie genius william castles classic strait jacket, where she gave a brilliantly bizarre performance. Straitjacket 1964 love slayer insane screams the newspaper headline. After lucys incarceration, carol was taken in by her aunt and uncle, bill and emily, and the family lives on a farm in a rural location.
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