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I gave this movie 5 stars for two reasons: William Castle and Joan Crawford. What a combo! And the movie’s pretty good too. 20 years ago, Lucy Harbin caught her husband with another woman and chopped them up with an axe. She gets committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. Now, she’s released in her daughter’s (Diane Baker) care on a farm with other relatives and wouldn’t you just know it—someone’s at it again, chopping up the extra characters. Poor Joan tries to please her daughter in every way to make up for lost time—but daughter dearest still wants her to look like she did 20 yrs ago—like Sadie Thompson! Well things just get downright messy and there’s more murders and screaming and then it all blows open. Someone’s crazy alright but it’s not our Joan. The extras on this DVD are great. There’s a telling interview with Diane Baker and a costume test for Crawford that’s hysterical. But wait till you see the “axe test”!…”Strait-Jacket” is a must have for fans. Joan (as Lucy) gets all dolled up like an aging hooker, jangling her bracelets and vamping it up while she wonders if she’s going off her rocker again. Her portrayal is strong and she seems to be having a good time. Highly recommended for Crawford fans and William Castle afficianados. Get it and enjoy it.

Joan Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who has been institutionalized for 20 years, after having hacked her unfaithful husband and his girlfriend to pieces with an axe. She is reunited with her estranged daughter, Carol (played by Diane Baker, who specialized in playing devious females at the time). Carol encourages her mother to dress like she did 20 years earlier,i.e. flower-printed dresses, jingly charm bracelets, and a black, 40s-style wig. Lucy does, and watch out! In what is my favorite scene in the film, Joan, looking like the world’s oldest hooker, comes on to her daughter’s handsome YOUNG fiance. It is almost obscene to watch this, but try and take your eyes off the screen! Mysterious axe-murders begin to take place. Joan’s psychiatrist, (played by Mitchell Cox, Vice-President of Pepsi!)sleazy farmhand Leonard Kraus, played by George Kennedy, and then Carol’s future father-in-law, played by Howard St. John. Naturally, we assume it’s Joan, right? Wrong! I won’t tell who the real murderer is, but I DID drop a clue earlier on. William Castle directed this Robert “Psycho” Bloch- scripted opus, and it is just what you’d expect from Castle-low-budget, full of cheap shocks, and just plain FUN. Miss Crawford is a hoot to watch, especially in her later films, such as this one. The film also has an entertaining cast, which includes Rochelle Hudson, Leif Ericson, and Edith Atwater, as Carol’s bitchy future mother-in-law.
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