Title, opening and closing: “Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad.”
Euripides, 425 B.C. (0:00, end)
Journalist Johnny asks psychiatrist Fong, “Do you think I’m a fetishist?”
Fong: “You’ll be facing the best psychiatrists in the state.”
Johnny thinks to himself, referring to Fong and Johnny’s boss, managing editor Swanson, ”They were in psychological warfare...”
Fong: “It’ll be a daily duel between the insane and your own sane mind.”
Cathy: “Johnny... John, you’ve got to be crazy to want to be committed to insane asylum to solve a murder.”
Johnny: “... those lunatics are not gonna get to me.”
Johnny’s lover Cathy: “Why don’t you get out of this psychoanalytical binge?”
Cathy: “Mark Twain didn’t psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer.”
”You’re on a hopped up show off stage... Don’t be Moses leading your lunatics to the Pulitzer Prize.”
”You make me sick... riding the crazy horse.”
Swanson: “He has been conditioned... to ride that horse.”
Cathy: “My whole instinct is to kick myself hard...”
”Don’t you dare analyze me.”
”I’m scared... about this whole crazy scheme of yours... this whole Jekyll Hyde idea is going to make a psycho out of me.”
”Hamlet was made for Freud, not you.” (0:02)
One dancer tells another, “I told Mr. Freud that the only way to strip is for me to take off all my clothes.” (0:10)
Cathy thinks, “... scared this whole Jekyll Hyde idea is going to make a psycho out of me.“
She replays Johnny’s words in her head: “... those lunatics are not gonna get to me.” (0:11)
Desk sergeant Caine asks Cathy, referring to Johnny, “Are you ready to sign a formal complaint that he’s mentally unsound?”
He speaks into the telephone: “The psycho unit, please.” (0:13)
Johnny thinks to himself while psychiatrist Menkin interviews him: “The next question is going to be about fetishes according to Dr. Fong’s script.”
Menkin: “Do you know what a fetishist is?”
Johnny: “Oh, doctor, I’m no epileptic with some sort of fetish for hair.”
Menkin: “Did you threaten to commit suicide if she ever got married?” (0:15)
Johnny, lying in his hospital bed, dreams of Cathy telling him, “You started this crazy idea... made a nervous wreck out of me.” (0:17)
In front of a picture of Freud Cathy reads to Fong and Swanson from her notes of what she overheard Menkin say: “His pattern of symptoms in a mental disease is familiar... Whenever he wants his sister physically, he is taking the form of a mental breakdown, an acute schizophrenic episode.”
”Aren’t either of you concerned about his breakdown?”
Fong: “What breakdown?”
Cathy: ”Well taking all those tests is bound to make him sick.”
”I think he’s got the perfect mood. A borderline psychosis, exactly... he’ll be committed.” (0:19)
Hospital attendant Wilkes: “140 IQ classification... superior intelligence.”
Wilkes tells attendant Lloyd, “New patient...”
Lloyd: ”So you’re a 140 IQ journalist.” (0:20)
Wilkes tells Johnny, “... the nympho ward got too dangerous for me.”
Johnny: “Am I the only loony in this ward?”
Wilkes: “... we never use words here like nuts, bugs, screwy, goofy, loony.”
”You’re a patient, not an inmate.”
Johnny: “This is an insane asylum, is it not?”
Wilkes: “This is a mental hospital...”
”... when you attacked the county hospital psychiatrist.”
Referring to Lloyd: “... he can’t cure the patients.” (0:22)
Patient Pagliacci asks Johnny, “Did you expect a demonstration of insanity?” (0:24)
Johnny thinks to himself about patient Stuart: “Witness #1... thinks he’s Jeb Stuart...” (0:25)
Johnny, referring to the patients: “They do have flashes of sanity.” (0:34)
Picture of Freud on Dr. Cristo’s office wall.
Cristo asks Johnny, ”Do you hear voices?”
Johnny: “The man on TV... looked right at me and told me it was naughty.” (0:35)
Patient in hydrotherapy tub: “I am impotent...”
Johnny asks Wilkes, ”Hydrotherapy. Is that what you call this treatment I’m getting?”
”Do you really think all this nerve-calming treatment is really going to make me forget...?” (0:36)
Cristo asks Cathy, referring to Johnny, “We know about his fetish for your hair.”
”Well he’s in dance therapy now.”
Cathy: “Dance therapy?” (0:37)
Johnny and the other patients dancing. (0:39)
Seeing a group of women patients, Johnny thinks, “Nymphos.”
The women attack him, throwing him to the floor. (0:42)
Stuart describes to Johnny flashbacks from military experience including capture by North Koreans.
Johnny answers Stuart, “It’s a mental hospital.”
Stuart: “... the commies said I was sick in the head...” (0:45)
Patients posture and gesticulate. (0:52)
Swanson: “Oh, Cathy, you’re becoming a nervous wreck.” (0:53)
Pagliacci tells Johnny, “When we’re asleep, no one can tell a sane man from an insane man.” (0:55)
Swanson tells Cathy, referring to Johnny, “Look, if I pulled him off now, he’d still suffer from some kind of depressive psychosis...”
Cathy: “You mean if he quits now the depression sickness could hit him?”
”You’re crazy.” (0:56)
Johnny restrained on a board with electrodes strapped to his head.
Cristo tells him, “You’re suffering from a form of dementia praecox... characterized by... hallucinations and emotional deterioration.” (0:57)
Patient Trent tells Johnny, referring to a posturing patient, “That’s why he’s in a catatonic stupor.” (1:00)
Trent and Johnny lie side by side in straight jackets in hospital beds. (1:07)
Johnny tells Cathy, referring first to Trent, then to patient Boden, “... he went nuts again... this time I’m not going to waste one of his sane moments...” (1:13)
By telephone Cathy answers Swanson, referring to Cristo: “Because he wanted my permission to give Johnny electric shock treatments.”
Swanson: “Have you lost your marbles?... He’ll crack if they find out he’s a fake.”
”Well, you should have refused the electric shock.”
Cathy: “He’s beginning to think I’m really his sister.” (1:15)
Johnny, restrained with electrodes attached to his head, convulses during electroconvulsive therapy. (1:16)
Johnny, thinking to himself: “Why can’t I talk?”
Cristo asks, “Do you think another shock treatment might help?” (1:16)
Johnny sees patient Bodin and thinks to himself, “Witness #3, Dr. Bodin, American physicist... went insane working on nuclear fission... now has the mentality of a child of six.” (1:18)
Johnny tells Cathy, “Imagine me... giving therapeutic treatments to Dr. Bodin.”
”Well you tell Swanee Bodin’s apt to snap back to sanity at any moment...” (1:20)
Bodin appears to respond to auditory hallucinations.
Johnny struggles, but cannot speak. He tells himself, “Don’t panic.”
”Don’t panic... Don’t panic...”
Bodin: “Today, with all this talk of the panic button...”Bodin, referring to murder victim Sloan: ”You know, for an insane man, he had morals.”
”... and do you know why we’re taking sexual advantage of feeble-minded women in the ladies ward?”
Johnny: “You must be crazy.” (1:21)
Cristo talks with a confused Johnny who lies in bed in a straight jacket. He tells Wilkes, “Keep him under restraint until further orders.” (1:26)
Johnny talks to the staff with his wrists restrained to a belt.
Cristo: “Wilkes, relieve Kellogg in hydro...” (1:28)
Johnny tells Cristo, “Doctor, I’m not nuts.”
Johnny remembers to himself, “Hydro, hydrotherapy.”
He runs into the hydrotherapy room. (1:33)
Cathy tells Cristo, referring to Johnny, “He was sane enough to write that story. He’s been sane for weeks.”
Cristo: “Well, a man can’t... live in a mental hospital and subject himself to all kinds of tests and expect to come out of it sane. John is a catatonic schizophrenic... An insane mute will win the Pulitzer Prize.”
Cathy: “He is not insane.”
Johnny displays waxy flexibility.” (1:37)
Reference in The Naked Kiss