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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.
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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.
Jan 18, 2011 · In Shock Corridor, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and madness. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder.
When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend...
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Pulpsmith Sam Fuller tackles socially divisive subjects like ingrained and institutional racism and xenophobia, the arms race, sexuality and psychology with hallucinatory surrealism and razor-sharp dialogue in the sensational B-picture Shock Corridor. The film follows Pulitzer Prize aspirant Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), a journalist hellbent ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Film. Time Out says. You may have to swallow a morsel of disbelief over the wonderfully Fullerian premise that a reputable newspaper editor and a psychiatrist would connive at the crazy scheme...
