The Other Side of Hell
A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.
- Runtime
- 2h 29m
- Released
- 1978
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1978
Storyline
A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.
Top credits
Alan Arkin — Frank Dole
Roger E. Mosley — Jim Baker- Tony Karloff — Carlo
Al Checco — Pudgy Man
Did you know
• Based on nonfiction book called "The Shoe Leather Treatment" by Bill Thomas. "The shoe leather treatment : the inspiring story of Bill Thomas's triumphant nine-year fight for survival in a state hospital for the criminally insane as told to S. L. Stebel."
• EPILOGUE: "While the story of Frank Dole is fictitious, many of the incidents were suggested by experiences of people like Dole and others familiar with mental institutions." "Perhaps in the future we will be better equipped to understand and handle the problems of the mentally ill."
User reviews
A true story
cuckoo's next without the belly laughs
I was there.......
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- Color
- Color
