November 4, 1948 –
The controversial (for the time) film about life inside a mental institution, The Snake Pit, directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick, opened on this date.
Stephen King has said that watching this film on TV as a child deeply disturbed him and made him feel that he could suddenly go insane, directly contributing to his macabre interests and subsequently his writings.
