| Shock Corridor | |
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| Directed by | Samuel Fuller |
| Written by | Samuel Fuller |
| Produced by | Samuel Fuller |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Stanley Cortez |
| Edited by | Jerome Thoms |
| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Shock Corridor is a 1963 American psychological thriller film[1] starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, and Gene Evans. Written, directed and produced by Samuel Fuller, it tells the story of a journalist who gets himself intentionally committed to a mental hospital to solve a murder committed within the institution.[2]
Fuller originally wrote the film under the title Straitjacket for Fritz Lang in the late 1940s, but Lang wanted to change the lead character to a woman, so Joan Bennett could play the role.[3]
In 1996, Shock Corridor was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4]
- ^ Kolker 2011, p. 223.
- ^ Motion Picture Purgatory – Shock Corridor
- ^ Fuller 2002, p. 242.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved January 17, 2021.