Out of True is a 1951 British second feature ('B')[1] short drama-documentary film, directed by Philip Leacock and starring Jane Hylton and Muriel Pavlow.

[2] It was made by the Crown Film Unit with sponsorship from the Ministry of Health, and was promoted as a "fictional account of a nervous breakdown which conforms to the pattern of much of the mental illness occurring today".

[4] Its production was motivated, in part, by the U.S. film The Snake Pit, which some critics in the UK feared would cast all psychiatric hospitals in a negative light.

Surprisingly, it begins with equivalent sensationalism – disordered mind is conveyed by vertiginous camera angles, objects going in and out of focus, crude musical noise and an echoing soundtrack; and the presentation of shock treatment, for instance, is equally dishonest – a quick, isolated sequence in itself, which shows us the gag fixed between the teeth, etc., but not the consequences of the treatment at all  ... though its intentions arc genuine, and its application is conscientious, Out of True is hardly likely to break down popular prejudices any more than The Snake Pit did.

Thanks to a fine cast and expert technical supervision, this film sheds much light on a shadowy social problem and should elicit favorable audience reaction.