The Other Side of Hell, starring Alan Arkin, is a movie about Frank Doyle who is a patient in the Hillsgate Institution for the Mentally Insane. Hillsgate did not exist and there was a disclaimer at the end of the movie saying it was not a true story. It came out in 1978, two years before the following books. Cold Storage by Wendell Rawls was published in 1980 about conditions at the Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Pennsylvania. The Shoe Leather Treatment by Bill Thomas (as told to S.L. Stebel) was published in 1980 and is about Bill Thomas who was a patient at Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Pennsylvania. Both books are true stories and are listed as biography by the library, but the movie is fiction.
Review of The Other Side of Hell
