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Release Date: 1964

Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Gene Hackman, Kim Hunter, Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Jessica Walter

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Black-And-White, Drama Film, Romantic Drama

Lilith (1964) is a film written and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on a novel by J. R. Salamanca and stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter and Gene Hackman. The movie was filmed at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland. Set in a private mental institution, it tells of a trainee occupational therapist Vincent Bruce (Beatty) who becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive, very able, schizophrenic patient Lilith Arthur (Seberg). After engineering the suicide of another patient (Fonda) out of jealousy for his crush on Lilith, Bruce presents himself for... MORE

Lilith (1964) is a film written and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on a novel by J. R. Salamanca and stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter and Gene Hackman. The movie was filmed at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland. Set in a private mental institution, it tells of a trainee occupational therapist Vincent Bruce (Beatty) who becomes dangerously obsessed with a seductive, very able, schizophrenic patient Lilith Arthur (Seberg). After engineering the suicide of another patient (Fonda) out of jealousy for his crush on Lilith, Bruce presents himself for psychiatric help to his superiors. Chestnut Lodge would not permit filming on location so those scenes were done in a vacant mansion rented by the production company, Centur Productions, on the North Shore of Long Island (Locust Valley). Location shooting in Maryland was done in a private home in Rockville as well as in the downtown area, plus scenes at Great Falls on both the Maryland and Virginia sides of the Potomac River, as well as a staged carnival scene at Barnssville, Maryland. This was Robert Rossen's last film before he died. In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson describes LESS