The Cobweb

In this film, based on William Gibson’s novel, Richard Widmark plays the head of a posh psychiatric clinic. Widmark’s wife Gloria Grahame jockeys for the honor of selecting new drapes for the hospital’s library. Thanks to those drapes, we are allowed to probe the disturbed psyches of several patients., A study of the neuroses of patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic, where the selection of new drapes for the hospital library sparks a war among a doctor’s wife and a number of the institution’s personnel.