Some other asylums: BEDLAM, with Boris Karloff, from the Val Lewton group at RKO THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM AT CHARENTON, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE (aka MARAT/SADE) You might also check out the treatment of Ophelia in the new Branagh HAMLET Some other prisons, especially depictions of non-US prisons: Hector Babenco's PIXOTE and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Guney's YOL Sembene's CAMP AT THIAROYE Sven Nykquist's version of ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH MIDNIGHT EXPRESS--you might want to compare it to the autobiographical book on which it's based! Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]