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Shock Corridor
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Shock Corridor is a 1963 American black-and-white film noir drama directed, produced, and written by Samuel Fuller. The cast includes Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, and James Best. Paul Dunlap composed the score, while Stanley Cortez served as director of photography and Eugène Lourié as production designer. The story is set in a psychiatric hospital and centers on a journalist.
The film was produced by Monogram Pictures, Leon Fromkess-Sam Firks Productions, and Allied Artists Pictures. It has been distributed by Netflix and is available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FlixFling, IndieFlix, and Cultpix. The runtime is listed as 101 or 102 minutes. It holds a review score of 7.9 out of 10 with 94% approval, an IMDb rating of 7.3, and a TMDb vote average of 7. The work is part of the National Film Registry and has been assessed by the Bechdel test.
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7.0With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Cast
- Peter Breck as Johnny Barrett
- Constance Towers as Cathy
- Gene Evans as Boden
- James Best as Stuart
- Hari Rhodes as Trent
- Larry Tucker as Pagliacci
Themes
- journalist
- insane asylum
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Samuel Fuller
- Screenwriter
- Samuel Fuller
- Cast member
- Philip Ahn
- Composer
- Paul Dunlap
- Producer
- Samuel Fuller
- Production company
- Monogram Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Stanley Cortez
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 809520
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Shock Corridor title.jpg
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- publication date
- 1963-01-01
- title
- Shock Corridor
- production designer
- Eugène Lourié
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- psychiatric hospital
- review score
- 94%
- Commons category
- Shock Corridor
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