The Baby (1973)

Tod Andrews: Doctor

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• Doctor : What's your special interest in this case?

  Ann Gentry : Can you think of anything more horrible than being buried alive? Well that's what's happened to this client. He's been imprisoned by a kind of sick love. He's a normal full grown man, trapped with no way out.

  Doctor : There's something here I don't understand. If he isn't seriously retarded, then how do you account for the fact that he can't walk, talk?

  Ann Gentry : Negative reinforcement, some kind of consistent punishment to discourage him from normal learning.

  Doctor : That's a pretty serious charge.

  Ann Gentry : Well they're a pretty strange family, especially the mother. Each child is by a different man, and all of them abandoned her. Now the last one she was married to, Baby's father, and I think when he left, she just never got over it. So she's taking revenge on the only male member of the family.