Strait-Jacket (1964)

Most William Castle movies have a gimmick, like the 'Fright Break' in Homicidal; Strait-Jacket on the other hand doesn't have a gimmick, it doesn't need one, it has Joan Crawford. Joan Crawford giving her all in this movie about a mother released from an asylum twenty years after murdering her husband and his girlfriend whom she had found together in her bed. The begining of the film with a "young" Joan Crawford is embarrassing because she was nearly sixty and playing maybe thirty. In fact Crawford is kind of awkward throughout, but she's suppose to be, she just got out of the asylum, and is she really cured? Anyway the twist in this is pretty good, I didn't see it coming, but it's still a silly one, but hey its William Castle. Notable for the presence of pre-star George Kennedy and Lee Majors. **1/2