With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.

Young American film directors have nothing at all to say, and Sam Fuller even less than the others. There is something he wants to do, and he does it naturally and effortlessly.” So begins Luc Moullet’s 1959 paean to Samuel Fuller, written four years before this independent film about a journalist who has himself committed to an asylum to investigate a murder, one of Moullet’s favourites. -NARROW MARGIN

Featuring virtual introduction by Luc Moullet 

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