Behind Locked Doors

I'm not getting myself locked up in any nut-house on some hunch!

Behind Locked Doors is directed by Oscar "Budd" Boetticher and written by Eugene Ling and Malvin Wald. It stars Richard Carlson, Lucille Bremer, Douglas Fowley, Ralf Harolde, Thomas Browne Henry, Herbert Heyes, Gwen Donovan and Tor Johnson. Music is by Irving Friedman and cinematography by Guy Roe.

Private detective Ross Stewart (Carlson) is coerced into going undercover at the La Siesta Sanitarium in search of a corrupt judge that reporter Kathy Lawrence (Bremer) believes is hiding out there. Getting himself committed under the guise of being a manic depressive, Stewart finds more than he bargained for once inside the gloomy walls of the asylum.

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The snag with this little pot-boiler is that you have to leave your sense of realism in the foyer. "Judge Drake" (Herbert Hayes) is wanted for questioning by the police, but they can't find him. Meantime, local journalist "Kathy Lawrence" (Lucille Bremer) has an inkling that he has sought refuge in a sanatorium. She engages the help of PI "Ross Stewart" (Richard Carlson) to impersonate an insane patient and establish whether, or not, the elusive judge is inside. Once there, he faces quite a few issues - not least from a particularly sadistic staff including nasty nurse "Larson" (Douglas Fowley) aided by the enormous, and instantly recognisable, Tor Johnson when muscle is required. The plot is just a bit too far-fetched and confused for my l...