Shock Corridor

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Shock Corridor
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Produced by Samuel Fuller
Written by Samuel Fuller
Starring Peter Breck
Constance Towers
Gene Evans
James Best
Music by Paul Dunlap
Cinematography Stanley Cortez
Distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Release date(s) USA September 11, 1963
Running time 101 min.
Language English
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Shock Corridor is a 1963 film which tells the story of a journalist who gets himself committed to a mental hospital in order to track the story of an unsolved murder. It stars Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari Rhodes and Larry Tucker.

The movie was written and directed by Samuel Fuller and has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

[edit] References in film

  • In The Dreamers (2003), the main character is watching Shock Corridor at the beginning.

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