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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.
- Samuel Fuller
- Paul Dunlap
- September 11, 1963
- Allied Artists Pictures
Jan 18, 2011 · 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. Constance Towers costars as Johnny’s coolheaded stripper ...
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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 committed at a mental ...
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- Peter Breck
- Samuel Fuller
- Drama
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.
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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 ...
Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself ...
