Let There Be Light
The methods of neuropsychiatric treatment of shell-shock casualities amongst US soldiers at the end of World War II, considering individual cases and their treatment.
[The film was banned from public release in March 1946 - with showings restricted to medical and psychiatric personnel only - until 1980. It's first public screening was on 8th November 1980 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, with a more general release from December 1980.
In 1948 the US Army Signal Corps adapted the film using professional actors and toning down scenes and presenting it in a documentary style, released as SHADES OF GRAY].
Cast & credits
Cast
- [Narrator] Walter Huston
Credits
Direction
- [Director] John Huston
Production
- Production Company U.S. Army Pictorial Service
- Presents United States Army
Writing
- [Script] John Huston
- [Script] Charles A. Kaufman
Photography
- [Photography] Stanley Cortez
- [Photography] John Doran
- [Photography] Lloyd Fromm
- [Photography] Joe Jackman
- [Photography] George Oliver Smith
Editing
- [Editor] Gene Fowler Jr
Music
- [Music] Dimitri Tiomkin
- [Music from WUTHERING HEIGHTS in score] Alfred Newman
