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starring: Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Diane McBain, Joan Crawford, Janis Paigedirected by: Hall Bartlett
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304308608
Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304308604
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 2187
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 21, 1963
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Rating:  - HILARIOUSLY HAYWIRE! Not To Be Missed!!
"You've seen these women --- disturbed, psychotic, miserable," Dr Robert Stack tells starlet nurses about the patients in Borderline, his controversial group therapy experiment. We can't agree that they're mentally ill, for these aren't Borderline Bad Actressess -- they're the Long Since Gone Over the Distant Horizon players.
MEET THE GALS: Finger-snappin' Sharon Hugueny coos, "Free like a daisy, a lazy daisy" and ex-hooker Janis Paige snarls, "Play it, kid: 'I was a Teenage Lunatic'"; ... Read More
Rating:  - TV pilot film?
A bit hokey for present day. It plays like a made-for-tv pilot film through out. The ending scene where staff and patients walk into their new facility is tailor made for continuing the characters in a television series. I'd be real surprised if that was not someone's purpose.
Rating:  - Joan's all good
Joan plays Nurse Lucretia Terry in this 1960's picture, floating on her "Baby Jane" success.
Lucretia Terry is an unsympathetic and careless nurse, working in a mental hospital. I think the film would have been a lot better if Joan's character was developed more. It also lacked some type of substance and there wasn't really a climax.
If you'd like to see Ms. Crawford in a picture that she made later in her career (her older ones weren't all bad), then I recommend "Straight ... Read More
Rating:  - Drama With Some Surprising Viewpoints on Mental Illness
"The Caretakers", has always come in for its fair share of criticism on how it depicts mental illness and it's treatment and I guess most films on this controversial topic receive their fair share of critical scrutiny. Opinions on this effort range from accusations of melodramatic excess through to appreciation of its at times humane viewpoints on patients who suffer from mental illness. Working in the field of mental health myself I was pleasantly surprised after a recent screening of "The Caretakers", ... Read More
Rating: - Flawed, but with a fabulous cast it is worth a look!
I won't say that "The Caretakers" is the greatest film ever made, but it is certainly not the worst. "The Caretakers" is the story of the struggle between a progressive doctor (Robert Stack), who wants to create a "day hospital" for "borderline" patients, and the old regime headed by Nurse Lucretia (Joan Crawford) and her team of nurses (including the terrific Constance Ford). All of the actresses who portray borderline patients are fabulous. Polly Bergen is Lorna, the woman tormented by the death of her ... Read More
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