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 |
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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]
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".[3]