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A film set in one of these places opens with eight men using pom-poms in a recital of “Strike Up the Band.” The reporter Johnny Barrett has his stripper girlfriend pose as his sister in a Samuel Fuller thriller set in one of these places. A musical saw solo played by Robert Armstrong opens and closes a film mainly set in one of these places. A censorship trial banned a 1967 Frederick Wiseman documentary set in one of these places, titled (*) Titicut Follies. (-5[1])At a film’s climax, the protagonist starts to strangle Louise Fletcher’s character in one of these places after seeing (10[1])the corpse of a young man who slit his throat. In that 1975 film by the director of The Firemen’s Ball, a miscreant played by Jack Nicholson inspires the residents of one of these places to rebel against a domineering caretaker. For 10 points, Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is set in what kind of place? ■END■

ANSWER: asylums [accept mental or psychiatric hospitals; accept mental institutions; accept mental wards; prompt on hospitals] (The Fuller film is Shock Corridor.)
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