Shock Corridor

"… opens the door to sights you've never seen before!"

Sep 25 1963 Approved 1h 41m
Drama, Mystery

With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.

Plot

Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...

Written by

Samuel Fuller

Directed by

Samuel Fuller

Cast

Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Allied Artists Pictures, Leon Fromkess-Sam Firks Productions

Languages

English

Awards

3 wins & 2 nominations

Trailers
Original Trailer
Featurettes
Katt Shea on Shock Corridor
Scores
# of Votes
13,496
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA