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Shock Corridor (1963)

★ 7.3Approved101 minDirector: Samuel Fuller

1963 film by Samuel Fuller

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.

In 1996, Shock Corridor was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Shock Corridor about?
Shock Corridor (1963) — 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 r
Is Shock Corridor based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Shock Corridor scary?
Content rating: Approved. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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