Behind Locked Doors

1948 PG-13 1h 2m

6.2 /10

Genre

Plot

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.

Director

Budd Boetticher

Writers

Eugene Ling Malvin Wald Malvin Wald

Stars

Lucille Bremer Richard Carlson Douglas Fowley

Cast & Crew

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)

John Holland

Dr. J.R. Bell (uncredited)

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Tony Horton

Trooper Captain (uncredited)

Wally Vernon

Maintenance Man (uncredited)

User Reviews

Geronimo1967

9 Jul 2022

The snag with this little pot-boiler is that you have to leave your sense of realism in the foyer. "Judge Drake" (Herbert Hayes) is wanted for questio...

John Chard

9 Sep 2019

I'm not getting myself locked up in any nut-house on some hunch! Behind Locked Doors is directed by Oscar "Budd" Boetticher and written by Eugene L...