Critic Reviews
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Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television
Strange, unique look at mental asylum is both visually and dramatically brilliant.
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Niki Patton, Martha's Vineyard Times (Massachusetts)
With its usual twist, it's surprising that The Cobweb hasn't become a cult classic. This '50's studio picture combines the ever popular Hollywood topic of mental illness with interior decorating.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Quintessential Minnelli melodrama is also a personal film: Set in an asylum in which the conflict concerns the kinds of drapes to be used, it offers inside look at a rigid institution in which the caretakers are as needy as the patients.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The highlight of the film was Oscar Levant singing "Mother" while being sedated.
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Charles Boyeras Dr. Douglas N. Devanal
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John Kerr (II)as Steven W. Holte
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