Shock Corridor
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Shock Corridor | |
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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) | 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.
[edit] External links
- Shock Corridor at the Internet Movie Database
- Shock Corridor at Rotten Tomatoes
- Criterion Collection essay by Tim Hunter
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