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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780021099
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780021096
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 1998
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 37834
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: September 11, 1963
Editorial Review:
Description:
Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, a reporter has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, madness closes in on him. Writer/director/producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and dementia. Criterion is proud to present Shock Corridor in a gorgeous, black and white widescreen transfer with its rarely-seen color sequences.
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Maverick film director Samuel Fuller was doing some of his best work in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and in the years since its release in 1963, Shock Corridor has become a B-movie classic and a prime example of Fuller's gritty tabloid style. Never hesitant to explore the darkened corners of contemporary life, Fuller depicts the chambers of an insane asylum as a microcosm of American society, telling the story of a cynical, ambitious journalist (Peter Breck) whose obsessive quest for a Pulitzer Prize leads him into the depths of madness. To investigate a murder, the reporter goes undercover in a mental hospital, having convinced a psychiatrist that he needs treatment. Once inside the asylum, he pieces together clues to the murder, but his own mind begins to deteriorate until he's trapped in a downward spiral towards insanity. Fuller heightens the melodrama with his aggressive style of filmmaking (his next film, The Naked Kiss, proved even more effective), and his imaginative use of black-and-white cinematography (by noted cameraman Stanley Cortez) fills the movie with raw, emotional power. It's the kind of film one would expect from a rebellious director on the Hollywood fringe, and that's why Shock Corridor remains an enduring low-budget examination of the 'rat race' and the consequences of pursuing success at any cost. The Criterion Collection DVD presents the film in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and a rarely seen color dream sequence has been fully restored. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - Hit and miss
Director Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor is one of those wildly aberrant works of art than can be called great, on some levels, and utter schlock, on other levels. And both are correct assessments of this film that can only be termed a didactic melodrama. What results, though, is that one is left with a so-so film- not the piece of pulp garbage that many reviewers first assailed the black and white film (with dream sequence snippets in color) as, upon its release in 1963, nor the masterpiece that revisionists ... Read More
Rating:  - Not nearly as good as I was led to believe.
Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963)
With all the hefty heaps of praise that have been lavished on Shock Corridor during the past decade, as Sam Fuller's films have been rediscovered by critics, I admit I went into it thinking it was going to be on a par with the second coming of Christ. Ah, the perils of reading too many reviews before actually seeing the film, which in this case is a B-grade melodrama, a cautionary tale that reminds me in many ways of Reefer Madness or the like, but about the ... Read More
Rating: - SAMUEL FULLER, OPUS 16
**** 1963. Written and directed by Samuel Fuller. Larry Tucker earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Pagliacci, the overweight witness of the Stuart murder. Helped by his girl-friend and by his boss, Peter Breck, a journalist, manages to be declared insane and to be sent to a mental institution where he hopes to solve an uncleared murder. But is it worth the price he'll have to pay ? Samuel Fuller, a former journalist, often described in his movies a situation that was literally his everyday ... Read More
Rating:  - Jaw-Dropping Hysterics...in the film AND in your living room
Ambitious journalist Peter Breck lusts after a Pulitzer Prize or, at the very least, "a book, a play, even a movie sale." So what's a starving, scheming, modestly talented scribe to do? Why, according to Shock Corridor, he ought to get himself committed to a loony bin to grill the crazies who witnessed an unsolved murder, crack the case, then cinch his immortality by exposing to the world the venality and corruption of - yep, you guessed it--The System. "I'm scared this whole Jeckyll/Hyde idea is going to make ... Read More
Rating: - one of the greatest looney bin movies
Years before 'one flew over the cukoo' nest' sam fuller made perhaps the strongest film against the horrors of the mental hospital and shock treatment in particular.. Equally as haunting as cuckoo's nest, shock corridor is a film which has not gotten enough recognition - like most of the director's work it is considered cult...
If you see this movie you will not soon forget its images.. One of the most powerful and relevant of which was a black patient who would put on a ku klux klan hat and create ... Read More
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