The Caretakers

The Caretakers, released in the UK as Borderlines, is a 1963 American drama film starring Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Diane McBain, Joan Crawford and Janis Paige in a story about a mental hospital.

Optimistic psychiatrist Dr. Donovan MacLeod wants to prove his theory that mental patients can benefit from group therapy. His method of treatment, with no violence or punishment, is met with a great deal of resistance from his unyielding and selfrighteous head nurse, Lucretia Terry, who believes in traditional methods such as straitjackets and padded cells for treating the mentally ill.Head of the hospital Dr. Harrington is weakwilled. Terrys assistant, nurse Bracken, supports her superiors stand. After much trial and error and the harrowing nearrape of a patient, MacLeods ideas prevail in spite of the opposition and meet some success. ........

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