Bedlam (1946 film)

Bedlam is a 1946 film about the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam).
 * Directed by Mark Robson. Written by Val Lewton (as Charles Keith), Mark Robson, and inspired by William Hogarth's paintings A Rake's Progress.

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Master George Sims

 * And here is our Freida, Queen Of The Artichokes.
 * Tell me kind words and gentle deeds will tame him!Enter the cage or your Quaker lies!

Nell Bowen

 * I have a fascination to see the loonies in their cages.
 * Being rich and important is a disease I do not wish to catch.
 * All for people who don't know I'm trying to help them.

Dialogue

 * Lord Mortimer: A capital fellow, this Sims, a capital fellow.
 * Nell Bowen: If you ask me, M'Lord, he's a stench in the nostrils, a sewer of ugliness, and a gutter brimming with slop.

Taglines

 * Sensational Secrets of Infamous Mad-house EXPOSED!

Cast

 * Boris Karloff — Master George Sims
 * Anna Lee — Nell Bowen
 * Billy House — Lord Mortimer
 * Richard Fraser — Hannay
 * Glen Vernon — The Gilded Boy
 * Ian Wolfe — Sidney Long
 * Jason Robards Sr. — Oliver Todd
 * Leyland Hodgson — John Wilkes
 * Joan Newton — Dorothea the Dove
 * Elizabeth Russell — Mistress Sims
 * Frankie Dee — Pompie