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Shock Corridor [Criterion Collection]

Actor(s): Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari (Harry) Rhodes
Director(s): Samuel Fuller
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Movie Details

Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Movie Release: 1963
DVD Release: 08/26/1998
Format: DVD - Black and White,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Edition: Special Collection
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 41 mins
Studio: Criterion
Members Wishing: 24
Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Psychological Thriller

DVD Synopsis

Shock Corridor represents filmmaker Samuel Fuller at his most excessive, but few would have it otherwise. Peter Breck plays a ruthless journalist who believes that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. To glean first-hand information, Breck pretends to go insane and is locked up in the institution. While pursuing his investigation, Breck is sidetracked by the loopy behavior of his fellow inmates. During a hospital riot, Breck is straightjacketed and subjected to shock treatment. By now almost as crazy as he's previously pretended to be, Breck begins imagining that his exotic-dancer girlfriend Constance Towers (a Samuel Fuller "regular") is actually his sister! Typical of the Fuller ouevre, the characters in Shock Corridor are either saved or destroyed by their individual obsessions. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Actors

Peter Breck - Johnny Barratt
Constance Towers - Cathy
Gene Evans - Boden
James Best - Stuart
Hari (Harry) Rhodes - Trent

Editorial Review of DVD

Samuel Fuller's brilliant and audacious drama about a reporter who discovers the madness of the world reflected in the patients of a mental hospital has been given a simple, but effective, treatment in this Criterion Collection release. Shock Corridor has been given a letterboxed transfer in its original widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and the audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono. The dialogue is in English, with no multiple-language options included. As a bonus, this DVD features the film's original theatrical trailer as well as the color sequences featured in the picture's initial release. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide