Review: Freud
Depicting the early stages in the career of Dr. Sigmund Freud (Montgomery Clift), whose progressive ideas for treating the mentally ill earn the ire of his stuffy colleagues. This is especially the case with Freud’s mentor Dr. Meynert (Eric Portman) who believes the patients are merely faking illnesses for attention. Susannah York and David McCallum play disturbed patients whose neuroses will result in the formation of Freud’s Oedipus-complex theory (with Freud having daddy issues himself that haunt him as well). Larry Parks plays Freud’s friend and professional colleague, Rosalie Crutchley plays Freud’s mother, Susan Kohner is Freud’s wife, Allan Cuthbertson plays another professional colleague, whilst director John Huston narrates the film. The frustratingly uneven penultimate film in the career of Montgomery Clift sees him unhelpfully cast as a supposedly neurotic Sigmund Freud. This 1962 biopic from director John Huston (director of my favourite film “The Misfits” a year...