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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 393189" data-attributes="member: 57984">In fact, STRAIT-JACKET was supposed to end on Diane Baker going crazy at the front door (e.g., &quot;I love you!,&quot; &quot;I hate you!.&quot; &quot;You&#039;re insane!&quot;).But Crawford was on the set that day, saw Baker&#039;s meltdown performance, and in fear of being upstaged for even 30 seconds, demanded that William Castle insert shots of herself on the other side of the door -- sobbing as she hugs a pillar -- having her own meltdown in response to her daughter&#039;s meltdown, thus neutralizing the impact of her daughter&#039;s meltdown.Then the final scene in the art studio, where Crawford re-explains everything and becomes the de facto mental health poster-child she desires to be, was added on later. It was not in the original script.These shenanigans did create some real tension between Crawford and Baker (who usually got along fairly well) because Joan had stolen Diane&#039;s climactic moment!Castle didn&#039;t hate movies; he was just incompetent. I see him as like a big-screen Aaron Spelling -- good at casting and concept but not much else.He wanted STRAIT-JACKET to be his &quot;masterpiece&quot; but it was perhaps his most poorly-executed movie.I still want to tweak it, however: fix the bottom drawer camerawork and tighten the &quot;direction&quot; and, with a few small changes in the dialogue, you might&#039;ve had yourself a little sleeper-shocker! As Judith Crist, one of the era&#039;s most objective critics, said, &quot;...this madness-and-murder tale...might have been a thriller, given Class A treatment.&quot;But the schism between potential and reality has damaged me somehow. Because the movie sooooo sucks.<img src="https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/wordpress.lehigh.edu/dist/7/1737/files/2020/03/strait-jacket4.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 789px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 393189, member: 57984"] In fact, STRAIT-JACKET was supposed to end on Diane Baker going crazy at the front door (e.g., "I love you!," "I hate you!." "You're insane!"). But Crawford was on the set that day, saw Baker's meltdown performance, and in fear of being upstaged for even 30 seconds, demanded that William Castle insert shots of herself on the other side of the door -- sobbing as she hugs a pillar -- having her [B]own [/B]meltdown in response to her daughter's meltdown, thus neutralizing the impact of her daughter's meltdown. Then the final scene in the art studio, where Crawford re-explains everything and becomes the de facto mental health poster-child she desires to be, was added on later. It was not in the original script. These shenanigans did create some real tension between Crawford and Baker (who usually got along fairly well) because Joan had stolen Diane's climactic moment! Castle didn't hate movies; he was just incompetent. I see him as like a big-screen Aaron Spelling -- good at casting and concept but not much else. He wanted STRAIT-JACKET to be his "masterpiece" but it was perhaps his most poorly-executed movie. I [B]still [/B]want to tweak it, however: fix the bottom drawer camerawork and tighten the "direction" and, with a few small changes in the dialogue, you might've had yourself a little sleeper-shocker! As Judith Crist, one of the era's most objective critics, said, "...this madness-and-murder tale...might have been a thriller, given Class A treatment." But the schism between potential and reality has damaged me somehow. Because the movie [I][B]sooooo [/B][/I]sucks. [IMG width="789px"]https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/wordpress.lehigh.edu/dist/7/1737/files/2020/03/strait-jacket4.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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