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Release Date
• USA: Sep 11, 1963
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 25, 1998
Running Time
1 hour, 41 minutes
Country USA
Studio Allied Artists
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Other Titles
• Shock Corridor
• Chok korridor (1967)
• Corredor sin retorno (1967)
• Paixões Que Alucinam
• Shokkikäytävä (1975)
• Il Corridoio della paura (1963)
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Genre: Drama, Psychodrama, Cult Classic, Mental Illness, Suspense, Murder, Police, Melodrama, Urban, Investigation
Plot: Samuel Fuller's honest, visionary pulp film uses an insane asylum as a metaphor for American society. The inmates include a black man who thinks he's a white supremacist, a Korean War Vet who thinks he's a Civil War Confederate general, and a nuclear physicist who has reverted to childhood. This microcosm, which Fuller created in 1963, has lost none of its force over time. In addition, the film's treatment of journalistic hubris foreshadows the contemporary problem of media becoming corrupted by its compliant association with governmental elites. In SHOCK CORRIDOR, a journalist (Peter Breck) hoping to get a scoop on a murder suspect has himself committed to a mental institution where the inmates have information on the culprit. As the film unfolds, the purity of the hero's mission is undercut by his own monomaniacal ego. Things go terribly awry, and although he gets his story, he pays a high price for his success.
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| Directed by |
Samuel Fuller
The Big Red One, Pickup on South Street, The Naked Kiss |
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| Written by |
Samuel Fuller
Girls in Prison, The End of Violence, Pierrot Goes Wild |
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| Cast |
Peter Breck
The Sword and the Sorcerer, Thunder Road, Benji | | Gene Evans
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Coma, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Sharky's Machine | Larry Tucker
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! | Paul Dubov
Irma la Douce, Cyrano de Bergerac, Champion | |
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| Music By |
Paul Dunlap
The Naked Kiss, The Angry Red Planet, Big Jim McLain |
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