- Shock Corridor
Infobox_Film
name = Shock Corridor
amg_id = 1:44406
imdb_id = 0057495
director =Samuel Fuller
writer =Samuel Fuller
starring =Peter Breck Constance Towers Gene Evans James Best
producer = Samuel Fuller
music =Paul Dunlap
cinematography = Stanley Cortez
distributor = Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
released =
runtime = 101 min.
language = English"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 starsPeter Breck ,Constance Towers ,Gene Evans ,James Best ,Hari Rhodes and Larry Tucker. The movie was written and directed bySamuel Fuller .In 1996, "Shock Corridor" was selected for preservation in the United States
National Film Registry by theLibrary of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".References in film
* In "The Dreamers" (
2003 ), the main character is watching "Shock Corridor" at the beginning.* In " [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Kiss] The Naked Kiss" (
1964 ), the theater outside the Bus Station is playing "Shock Corridor".External links
*imdb title|id=0057495|title=Shock Corridor
*" [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shock_corridor/ Shock Corridor] " atRotten Tomatoes
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=19&eid=32§ion=essay Criterion Collection essay by Tim Hunter]
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