Best Golden Era Movie to watch for my Psychology report?

[Atterbury Dodd]

Hi Ya'll,

I have to write a report for my Psychology class. The report has to be about a movie. The movie has to be have disorder in it related to psychology. Anyway, I had considered Best Years of Our Lives for post tramatic stress, but I'm not sure I want to use it. Any ideas folks?

 

[John in Covina]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040806/

The Snake Pit 1948

Vertigo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/

 

[beth]

Yes, Alfred Hitchcock films, such as Marnie and Spellbound came to mind, but I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.

 

[Pompidou]

What about Fritz Lang's M? It features pedophilia.

 

[RM Bantista]

A bit before then, Fritz Lang directed Peter Lorre in M (1931). Classic film in many ways. Certainly worth some attention by those interested in psychology of various kinds...

regards,

rudy

 

[Miss Golightly]

How about The Three Faces of Eve?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Faces_of_Eve

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

Some great ones so far. Keep 'em coming, everybody! It's great to have choices!

 

[Doctor Strange]

The Seventh Veil. Peeping Tom. So Long At The Fair. The Manchurian Candidate. And plenty of other Hitchcock films besides Spellbound, Vertigo, and Marnie.

Also early sixties are-there-really-ghosts-or-are-they-imagining-them? flicks like The Haunting and The Innocents. And SF along the same lines: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invaders From Mars, etc.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

White Heat with James Cagney. IMDB Description: "A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn "

That's gotta go good in pysch class.

Later

 

[scottyrocks]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/

Edit: Oops, sorry, this is not golden era. I withdraw my suggestion.

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

Doesn't have to be Golden era, but being me and this being the Lounge I would prefer it to be.

 

[Benzadmiral]

I suggest 1944's "The Uninvited," w/ Ray Milland: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037415/

My memory says it wasn't a standard haunted-house, creepy, scare story. The mystery is why the dead girl is haunting the house, and I believe it turns on her character and psychology, when she was alive, that is. If anybody has seen it more recently, chime in.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Gone With The Wind." Scarlett O'Hara is a textbook narcissist.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

The Lost Weekend - Ray Milland battling alcoholism
Sybil - Sally Field with multiple personality disorder
Possessed - Joan Crawford wandering the streets of LA with amnesia
Spellbound - Gregory Peck with amnesia & Ingrid Bergman as the psychologist trying to determine why
Shadow of a Doubt - Joseph Cotten as the beloved uncle who is a serial killer...

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I did a report on Vivian Revere (Ann Dvorak) in Three On A Match (1932)!!

How she has it all, isn't satisfied, and turns to a life of crime and drugs.

 

[Talbot]

Not golden era, but set in the era. 'Enid', a bio-pic of Enid Blyton.

Perfect if you are studying Narcissistic Personaity Disorder (NPD).

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

Folks thank you for all the suggestions. Now I'm waiting to see what grade I get...

 

[4spurs]

Treasure of the Sierra Madre; Bogart as a very paranoid individual; Caine Mutiny, same Bogart, same whackosis. [You'll find "Whackosis" in the DSM IV; seriously.]

 

[Harp]

"Gone With The Wind." Scarlett O'Hara is a textbook narcissist.

...compare with VL's more sympathetic role in Waterloo Bridge;
equally tragic yet polar opposite female psyche caught in emotional conflict. :cry:

 

[Dixon Cannon]

'Twelve O'Clock High'; they still use it for Air Force officer training. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041996/


-dixon cannon