Fuller at his lurid best - independent finance, a journalist protagonist, a storyline that enables him to tackle all sorts of issues: Peter Breck goes undercover as a patient at a lunatic asylum to investigate a murder... a fantastic set up. Among the patients he meets are a southerner who is convinced he's a Confederate general, a black who is anti integration and a nuclear scientist.
Breck gets attacked by nymphos in the female ward (my favourite Fuller moment it has to be seen to be believed) and is befriended by a chubby opera singing patient; there's a strip tease number, dream sequences in colur and Breck is committed by faking incestuous lust for his "sister". The murder mystery gets lost at times but it's full blown and lots of fun - perhaps Fuller's best film?
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