Hi there, The movie, the Other Side of Hell, originally aired on NBC. Another title in the works had been Escape from Hell. It is actually a true life story of a man named Bill Thomas. Everyone involved in the shooting of the movie was quite surprised at the end when the disclaimer came on and said that the movie was not based on real events. The insane asylum was in Pennsylvania. Bill went crazy because, at his father's death bed, he asked him for forgiveness (of what I never found out), and his father told him he would never forgive him and then died. Bill went around trying to talk to the dead at funerals to get a message to his father. He realized he was sick and needed help so he confessed to the murder of a girl. He ended up in Fairview State Mental Hospital and was there for nine years before he escaped using the keys he found. After the movie was released, S.L. Stebel (not sure of spelling) wrote a biography entitled "The Shoe Leather Treatment" published by J.P. Tarcher. The Shoe Leather treatment referred to the term the guards used in the hospital/prison when the patients misbehaved. Basically they were kick and beaten half to death. I will look and see if we have any copies of the Other Side of Hell at home any more, though I doubt it. If so, I will post back to the site. NBC might be a good place to look otherwise. Hope this information helps y'all.
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