It was a 1950-40s movie, black and white. I think maybe it had an investigative reporter visiting an insane asylum to investigate some kind of corruption scandal. A lot of people in the movie kept on talking about how much money $5000 was ( I think this may have been to bribe the reporter into dropping the case?) The movie had a title like “The Human Monster” or something, and there was some kind of human monster locked up in the asylum, but it only showed up in the last few minutes of the movie.
Not sure how helpful this is, but I recall it being included in a DVD bundle with Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Behind Locked Doors (1948) aka Human Gorilla
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040153/
Human Gorilla, that’s it! Thank you for solving this
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Sorry about that, Surfer. Added, which officially bumps you into 10th place all-time. Congrats!