Shock Corridor (1963)


Shock Corridor
Release Date11 September 1963
GenreDrama, Mystery
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorBlack and White, Color
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassPsychological Thriller, Psychological Drama
ThemesGoing Undercover, Wrongly Committed, Doctors and Patients, Fighting the System, Writer's Life
TonesConfrontational, Stylized, Visceral, Lurid, Paranoid, Forceful, Angry
TagsAttack, Craziness, Delusion, Disguise, Hospital, Insanity, Investigation, Investigator, Journalist, Kill, Mental Illness, Murder, Prize, Psychiatrist, Riot [uprising], Scientist, Security Guard, Therapist, Witness

Shock Corridor is a 1963 film, directed and written by Samuel Fuller. The film tells the story of a journalist who gets himself committed to a mental hospital in order to track an unsolved murder.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Johnny Barrett

Gene Evans
Boden

Stuart

Hari Rhodes
Trent

Larry Tucker
Pagliacci

Paul Dubov
Dr. J.L. Menkin

Chuck Roberson
Wilkes

Neyle Morrow
Psycho

John Matthews
Dr. L.G. Cristo

Bill Zuckert
'Swanee' Swanson

John Craig
Lloyd

Dr. Fong

Frank Gerstle
Lt. Kane

Rachel Romen
Singing nympho

Linda Randolph
Dance teacher in therapy class

Marie Devereux
Nympho

Chuck Hicks
Tough attendant

Director

Writer

Producer

producer

Sam Firks
executive producer

Leon Fromkess
executive producer

Original Music

Paul Dunlap
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Cinematographer

Stanley Cortez
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Editor

Jerome Thoms
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Art Director

Eugène Lourié

Set Decorator

Charles S. Thompson

Costume Designer

Einar Bourman

Makeup Department

Dan Greenway
makeup supervisor

Production Manager

Rudolph C. Flothow
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Floyd Joyer
assistant director

Sound Department

Philip Mitchell
recording supervisor

Josef von Stroheim
sound effects editor

Gordon Zahler
sound effects supervisor

Special Effects

Charles Duncan
special effects

Visual Effects

Linwood G. Dunn
special optical effects

Music Department

Jack Lowry
music editor

Gordon Zahler
music supervisor

Other Crew

Mary Chaffee
script supervisor

Jon Gregory
choreographer

Herbert G. Luft
assistant: Leon Fromkess

Ray Mercer
title designer

Production Company

Leon Fromkess-Sam Firks Productions

Distributor

Allied Artists Pictures

Parafrance Films

Home Vision Entertainment (HVE)

Umbrella Entertainment

Amanda Films
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Criterion Collection, The
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Divisa Home Video

Home Vision Cinema

Kinowelt Home Entertainment

Metrodome Distribution

Punto Zero

Miscellaneous

Ryder Sound Services
sound recording






Navigation Boxes
Films directed by Samuel Fuller
Caine (1969)
China Gate (1957)
Park Row (1952)
Shock Corridor
Verboten! (1959)
White Dog (1982)