Cobweb, The (1955) - (Movie Clip) I Am Sometimes A Little Dictatorial

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Sprung Up Like A Toadstool!

Gloria Grahame as Karen, lonely wife of one doctor at the psychiatric clinic, on the phone from a local concert with administrator Vicky (Lillian Gish) fighting about drapes, then sharing with her husband’s suave French senior colleague “Dev” (Charles Boyer), in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955.

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Phobic

Inmates dining at the Midwestern psychiatric hospital (noted at the time for its resemblance to the Menninger Clinic in Kansas), Stevie (John Kerr) celebrating because he’s been chosen for an art project, and previously stable Susie (Susan Strasberg) rattled by his suggestion, in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955.

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Artists Are Better Off Dead

Director Vincente Minnelli through the credits followed John Kerr running through a field, with screeching strings, and he’s now picked up by Gloria Grahame in a Ford Country Squire wagon, and we’re left to infer their relationships with psychiatrist Richard Widmark, opening The Cobweb, 1955.

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) You're Going To Hate Yourself In The Morning

Finally some background on Lauren Bacall, as Mrs. Rinehart, on staff at the psychiatric hospital, in the workshop visited by patient Stevie (John Kerr) who is, on the whole, grateful that she’s arranged for him to paint the new drapes, in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955, from a novel by William Gibson.