Shown are pictures of the filmset paraphernalia used in the Paramount production
'Asylum' made on location at High Royds. An example being the vintage car, a prop shown at the rear of the building and the
camera and lights scaffolding in the ballroom.
Plot summary
Asylum is the story of the bored and unfulfilled wife of a psychiatrist working
at a remote mental asylum (in Britain in the very early 1960s), who starts a passionate but dangerous affair with one of the
inmates, a jealous psychopath.
At first Stella is beguiled by the new world of passion and unchartered lust Edgar
introduces her to and the pair manage to keep their affair secret from the mental asylum officials until Edgar can take it
no more and breaks out of the asylum.
Stella attempts to continue life without her lover, playing mother to her son,
Charlie and wife to her husband, Max. She pays Edgar occasional visits, telling her husband she is shopping, but she soon
realises that she is unable to continue doing this and if she wants to be with Edgar, she must sacrifice her family to do
so.
She runs away to join him, brashly and without thought one day, and herself and
Edgar begin a loose, somewhat bohemian life together, remaining out of the public eye for fear of police and Edgar being forced
to return to the asylum.
