Stairway to Light
John Nesbitt's Passing Parade
Overview
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Sammy Lee
- Writers
- Rosemary Foster,John Nesbitt
- Producers
- Herbert Moulton
- Cinematography
- Charles Salerno Jr.
- Composer
- Max Terr
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CinemaSerf
July 6, 2025
The unassuming Philippe Pinel (Wolfgang Zilzer) takes up a position in charge of a prison for the mentally ill in Paris and is horrified by what he discovers. There are people, unkempt and uncared for, who have been kept in the dark, chained to walls and fed a diet of gruel, bread and water - and they have been there for decades. Rather courageously, he concludes that chains and pain have never “cured” anyone so he determines to release some of these people back into society. Now there is an und…