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Shock Corridor is a 1963 American psychological thriller film [1] starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, and Gene Evans. Written, directed and produced by Samuel Fuller , it tells the story of a journalist who gets himself intentionally committed to a mental hospital to solve a murder committed within the institution.
Shock Corridor. Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder ...
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- Peter Breck
- Samuel Fuller
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Jan 18, 2011 · A classic film by Samuel Fuller about a reporter who fakes insanity to expose a murder in a mental hospital. The Criterion edition features a new transfer, interviews, documentary, and more.
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A journalist fakes insanity to investigate a murder in a mental hospital and uncovers a shocking secret. Read the plot details, cast and crew, trivia, and user reviews of this classic thriller film.
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the 1963 film Shock Corridor, directed by Samuel Fuller. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, cinematographers, editors and more on IMDb.
Shock Corridor was the first of two films that Fuller directed for Leon Fromkess and Sam Firks under the auspices of Allied Artists, the second being The Naked Kiss (1964). Fuller described the inspiration for Shock Corridor as follows: "When I was a reporter I was taken into a ward for the insane by a cop and he tried to pull a joke on me and ...
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In SHOCK CORRIDOR, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and madness. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, insanity closes in on him.
