Lilith
Starring Warren Beatty
Directed by Peter Rossen
With Peter Fonda, Jean Seberg, and Gene Hackman
1964
This movie is a gem.
Beatty is portrayed as a returning vet, perhaps WW2, who joins the staff of a private East Coast Asylum. Fonda is his rival for the amorous patient Seberg. Hackman is the man who married Beatty's High School Sweetheart while he was at war in a relatively minor, but noteworthy, role.
A running speculation of mine is that Ted Bundy identified with Beatty, the 1974 star of the 'Parralax View'. Although only speculation, this movie does make an interesting addition to that 'profile' - and perhaps a profile of America's sexual politics.
Everyone in the cast nails their part to a 'T'.
