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Shock Corridor is a 1963 American psychological thriller film 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.
May 14, 2024 · Shock Corridor is perhaps the finest example of Sam Fuller’s perpetual battle between lurid sensationalism and a genuine passion for the messages he wanted to convey.. Early on, an orderly ...
Sep 14, 2013 · Samuel Fuller’s ‘Shock Corridor’ arrived in mad times. By J. Hoberman. Sept. 14, 2013 10 AM PT. Not a guy to mince words, two-fisted writer-director Samuel Fuller began (and ended) his...
Jan 18, 2011 · View All. 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.
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Sep 14, 2013 · Not a guy to mince words, two-fisted writer-director Samuel Fuller began (and ended) his tabloid classic “Shock Corridor” with a spurious quote from Euripides: “Whom God wishes to destroy he...
Sep 2, 2019 · Samuel Fuller’s provocative murder mystery from 1963 brilliantly captures the fear and paranoia which beset postwar society.
Sep 7, 2016 · In Robert Polito’s Criterion Collection essay on Samuel Fuller’s 1963 film Shock Corridor, the firebrand filmmaker Fuller is quoted saying “it is not the headline that counts, but how hard you shout it.” This spirit of loud, unabashed aggression perfectly epitomizes Shock Corridor, a singular, strange entry in the cinema of 1963.
