Shock Corridor(1963)

Synopsis

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 ...

Mood

• Emotional
• Gripping
• Tense

Director

Samuel Fuller

Cast

• Peter Breck
• Constance Towers
• Gene Evans

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