Patient 411: A Progress Report
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9 minA UCLA student film by Ronald Raley. Fellow UCLA student Jim Morrison (future member of The Doors) participated as the director of photography. A faux scientific film supposedly made by the "California Institute of Neuropsychiatry." An arrogant scientist, who also narrates the course of the "treatment," picks up a Hollywood street hustler and gets him to agree to a program of retraining. Using shock treatment, the patient is taught to loathe images of himself as a male escort and love the new personality created in the lab.
Country:
USGenre:
Drama, Science FictionReleased:
1965-06-11Languages:
EnglishCompanies:
UCLA Film and Television Archive