| The Fifth Floor | |
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| Directed by | Howard Avedis |
| Written by | Meyer Dolinsky |
| Produced by | Howard Avedis |
| Starring | Bo Hopkins Dianne Hull Patti D'Arbanville Sharon Farrell Robert Englund Anthony James Julie Adams Mel Ferrer John David Carson Earl Boen Betty Kean Alice Nunn Cathey Paine Udana Power Maggie Appel |
| Cinematography | Daniel Pearl |
| Edited by | Stanford C. Allen |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Distributed by | Film Ventures International |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3,775,000 [1] |
The Fifth Floor is a 1978 American thriller film about a sane woman who gets sent to an asylum. It stars Dianne Hull, Bo Hopkins and Mel Ferrer. [2] [3]
The film focuses on Kelly McIntyre, a disco dancer played by Dianne Hull [4] [5] who through no fault of her own accidentally overdoses on drugs and collapses at a disco. [6] [7] She is misdiagnosed as suicidal and sent to a psychiatric ward [8] which is on the fifth floor of Cedar Springs Hospital. [9] There she finds herself alone with no help, not even from her boyfriend who refuses to get her out of there. [10] She becomes the subject of interest by an unbalanced orderly played by Bo Hopkins. [11]