Strait-Jacket

Strait-Jacket
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWilliam Castle
Written byRobert Bloch
Produced byWilliam Castle
StarringJoan Crawford
CinematographyArthur E. Arling
Edited byEdwin H. Bryant
Music byVan Alexander
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
William Castle Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • January 8, 1964 (1964-01-08)[1]
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2,195,000 (rentals)[2]

Strait-Jacket is a 1964 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by William Castle, written by Robert Bloch and starring Joan Crawford. Its plot follows a woman who, having murdered her husband and his lover decades prior, is suspected of a series of axe murders following her release from a psychiatric hospital.

Released by Columbia Pictures in January 1964, the film was the first of two written for Castle by Robert Bloch, the second being The Night Walker (1964). The film's plot makes use of the psychological abuse method known as gaslighting.

  1. ^ "Strait-Jacket". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  2. ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965, pg. 39.