Shock Corridor (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
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- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Breck | |
Performer: | Constance Towers, Gene Evans, Hari Rhodes, James Best, Larry Tucker, Philip Ahn, John Matthews, Frank Gerstle, Paul Dubov & Rachel Romen | |
Directed by | Samuel Fuller | |
Edited by | Jerome Thoms | |
Written by | Samuel Fuller | |
Composition by | Paul Dunlap | |
Produced by | Samuel Fuller | |
Director of Photography: | Stanley Cortez |
Entertainment Reviews:
94%
TOMATOMETER
...A major cult movie shot in glorious black-and-white by Stanley Cortez...
USA Today
Carved from noir shadows and crazed camera angles...
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Product Description:
Samuel Fuller's honest, visionary pulp film uses an insane asylum as a metaphor for American society. The inmates include a black man who thinks he's a white supremacist, a Korean War Vet who thinks he's a Civil War Confederate general, and a nuclear physicist who has reverted to childhood. This microcosm, which Fuller created in 1963, has lost none of its force over time. In addition, the film's treatment of journalistic hubris foreshadows the contemporary problem of media becoming corrupted by its compliant association with governmental elites. In SHOCK CORRIDOR, a journalist (Peter Breck) hoping to get a scoop on a murder suspect has himself committed to a mental institution where the inmates have information on the culprit. As the film unfolds, the purity of the hero's mission is undercut by his own monomaniacal ego. Things go terribly awry, and although he gets his story, he pays a high price for his success.
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