Based on nonfiction book called "The Shoe Leather Treatment" by Bill Thomas. "The shoe leather treatment : the inspiring story of Bill Thomas's triumphant nine-year fight for survival in a state hospital for the criminally insane as told to S. L. Stebel."
EPILOGUE: "While the story of Frank Dole is fictitious, many of the incidents were suggested by experiences of people like Dole and others familiar with mental institutions."
"Perhaps in the future we will be better equipped to understand and handle the problems of the mentally ill."
"Perhaps in the future we will be better equipped to understand and handle the problems of the mentally ill."