Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor is an American film carried out by Samuel Fuller, left in 1963.

Synopsis

Johnny Barett, journalist ambitious who wishes to gain the Prix Pulitzer, projects to be immersed in a psychiatric asylum to uncover the author of a murder which proceeded there. Prepared by a psychiatrist, former specialist in the psychological warfare, and with the reticent complicity of his Cathy partner, stipteaseuse, who is made pass for her sister victim of her incestueuses tendencies, it is made stop then interning while continuing to simulate mental disorders.

In the central corridor of the establishment, the " rue" where all the patients cotoient themselves, it is necessary for him to face and compose with the neuroses and psychoses of the lunatics to discover the truth. Whereas its investigation advances, the treatment the electric shocks, its continual simulation of the disease and the environment in which it evolves/moves start has to generate at his place a state of mental confusion which it can less and less control.

Data sheet

Title: Shock Corridor
original Title: Shock Corridor
Realization: Samuel Fuller
Scenario: Samuel Fuller
Production: Sam Firks, Leon Fromkess, Samuel Fuller
Music: Paul Dunlap
Photography: Stanley Cortez and Samuel Fuller (hallucinatory scenes)
Assembly: Jerome Thoms
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Black and white with sequences colors - 1,85:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: drama
Lasted: 101 minutes
Coming out date: 1963
Film prohibited with less than 12 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

Peter Breck: Johnny Barett
Constancy Towers: Cathy
Gene Evans: Boden
James Best: Stuart
Hari Rhodos: The Trent
Larry Tucker: Pagliacci
Paul Dubov: Dr. Menkin

Around film

turning lasted only one ten days. The last scene of film is that where Barett, victim of hallucinations, see the rain of a violent one storm flooding the corridor and the lightning to strike it. This apocalyptic sequence implied the destruction of the decorations. It was as for Fuller a means of making sure as one would not make him turn over some scenes to modify his film.

See too

Shock Corridor on Internet Movie Database

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