Lilith (film)

For other uses of the name Lilith, see Lilith (disambiguation)

Lilith (1964) is a film written and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on a novel by J. R. Salamanca and stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter and Gene Hackman. The movie was filmed at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland.

Movie poster for the film Lilith

Plot

Set in a private mental institution, it tells of a trainee occupational therapist Vincent Bruce (Beatty) who becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive, very able, schizophrenic patient Lilith Arthur (Seberg).

After engineering the suicide of another patient (Fonda) out of jealousy for his crush on Lilith, Bruce presents himself for psychiatric help to his superiors.

Reputation

In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson describes Lilith as "an oddity, the only one of Rossen's films that seems passionate, mysterious and truly personal. The other films will look increasingly dated and self-contained, but Lilith may grow."

External links

• The source of this article at Wikipedia

• This movie at the Internet Movie Database