Shock Corridor 1963 123movies

Watch: Shock Corridor 1963 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 ….
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 12,310
	95% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 213 Popularity: 9.108 | TMDB

Reviews:

Disturbing look at mental wards has its moments…needs better script…
Samuel Fuller’s direction helps keep SHOCK CORRIDOR watchable but the script is never valid enough to make the film anything more than an interesting experiment that is only half successful.

PETER BRECK does a good job as a newspaper reporter with only one thought on his mind. (“Who killed Slade in the kitchen?”). He goes undercover at a mental institute in order to uncover the truth. His girl friend CONSTANCE TOWERS agrees to help get him get incarcerated on the pretense that he’s her brother and tried to rape her.

That premise alone is hard to make believable the quick succession of events that lead to Breck’s being shoved into a psycho ward. Director Fuller lets the camera discover several other rather interesting patients but none of them are fully developed as characters we can care about.

Without revealing the disturbing ending, let me just say you’re liable to get hooked into watching the film if you happen to catch it from the start. It’s worth a watch, if only to see where all the story strands are going.

But when it’s all over, you have to wonder whether anyone can really take the story seriously. Good try though–and Breck really gives his all to his volatile bursts of temper.

A Freak Out
Before the late sixties when things opened up and the new wave of sex and violence was unleashed on movie audiences and gave unexplored territory to filmmakers, the grind houses were playgrounds for rain-coat crowds gawking at nudie cuties and exploitation documentaries.

Sam Fuller’s The Naked Kiss (1965) and Shock Corridor (1963) could have and probably did play these theaters. They certainly have that look and had some of the subject matter, dialog and images that fit right in.

In this film they speak of incest, impotency, and nymphomania. It is these lurid laments that gave the Director a voice unlike his more respectable peers. Subtlety was never Sam Fuller’s problem, and that made him almost always ahead of his time. He was puerile in his inhibitions and could be counted on to write with a sledgehammer.

Although the movie is set in an asylum and has assorted perverts and neurotics, the thrust here is America and social reform. Leave it to Fuller to approach such topics as racism, communism, mental health facilities, and war through the distorted lens of the camera and the sharp angled sets with piercing black and white photography enclosed in the claustrophobic confines of these corridors.

There are bizarre characters and even more bizarre dialog. Nothing here is smooth, it is a bombastic breakthrough into the little known world of the cuckoo’s nest, the nut house, the loony bin, the funny factory, the snake pit, and it is crammed down your psyche with pages of pulp and some of the most freakazoid, gonzo journalism of its time produced as a B-Movie.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Mystery
Director Samuel Fuller
Writer Samuel Fuller
Actors Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Ryder Sound Services)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Mitchell BNCR
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (fantasy sequences)
Film Length 2,745 m (1969) (Finland)
Negative Format 16 mm (fantasy sequences), 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm