- Shock (1946 film)
Infobox Film
name = Shock
image_size = 220px
caption = Film Poster
director =Alfred L. Werker
producer =Aubrey Schenck
writer = Screenplay: Eugene Ling
Story: Albert DeMond
Dialogue: Martin Berkeley
starring =Vincent Price Lynn Bari
music =David Buttolph
cinematography =Joseph MacDonald
editing =
distributor =Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
released =January 10 1946 (U.S.A.)
runtime = 70 minutes
country =United States
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:44415
imdb_id = 0038937|"Shock" is a
1946 film noir directed byAlfred L. Werker . [imdb title|id=0038937|title=Shock.]Plot
The film tells the story of a psychiatrist, Dr. Cross, (
Vincent Price ), who is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw), who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. It also starsLynn Bari as Dr. Cross'snurse /lover , Elaine Jordan.As Stewart comes out of her shock, she recognizes Dr. Cross as the killer. He then takes her to his sanitarium and at Elaine's urging, gives Janet an overdose of insulin under the pretence of
insulin shock therapy . He can't bring himself to murder her in cold blood, though, and asks Elaine to get the medicine to save her. Elaine refuses, they argue, and he strangles her. Dr. Cross saves Janet's life, but now faces two murder charges.Cast
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Vincent Price as Dr. Richard Cross
*Lynn Bari as Elaine Jordan
* Frank Latimore as Lt. Paul Stewart
* Anabel Shaw as Janet Stewart
* Stephen Dunne as Dr. Stevens
* Reed Hadley as O'Neill
* Renee Carson as Mrs. Hatfield
* Charles Trowbridge as Dr. Franklin HarveyReferences
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