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Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

antoniocasaca123 I just saw the movie and still do not know what to think. It's an uncomfortable movie, no doubt nothing is "light" in the film. The scenes with the crazy 3 who witnessed the murder leading our protagonist to the mentally ill hospital are very well done. The Negro to repudiate his race and to wear the "uniform" of the Ku Klux Klan is a scene that he does not forget. On the one hand, this film is more disturbing than the Oscar-nominated "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", made 12 years later. On the other hand, there are certain scenes of the film that seemed to me that they did not have the proper sequence, as for example the protagonist begins to convince that his girlfriend is his sister. Well, the film does not leave us indifferent, not at all, and this is already a great merit. From Samuel Fuller, I had seen "the big red one" and "the white dog", films that I liked a lot. This also I think I liked, but I'm still "absorbing" the movie.

gavin6942 Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.I knew nothing of this film going in, and really had little idea of who Sam Fuller was. I saw "Pickup on South Street", but that by no means prepared me for this masterpiece. Anyone who wants to see life in the early 1960s, this is the film to see, because it tells it real and it tells it raw.The plot and characters have all the hallmarks of exploitation, and yet this was a mainstream film. Maybe it had no big actors and maybe it won few awards, but it should have. This film is a treasure, and one of the all-time greatest American movies ever made for its story alone.

ofpsmith Shock Corridor is a film that Samuel Fuller made with limited sets and a tight budget. But out of these limitations Fuller made a truly great film. Yeah it's cheesy in some parts and some of the acting is pretty bad but it's a film that really get's under your skin. Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) is a reporter for the paper who has himself committed to a mental hospital to solve a murder. I think this would actually be illegal but so on. Whilst there, Barrett befriends three main patients. Stuart (James Best) an ex soldier who underwent North Korean brainwashing, defected and returned and now believes himself to be General JEB Stuart of the American Civil War. Trent (Hari Rhodes) is an African American college student who was one of the first African Americans to integrate a Southern University, but was broken by racism and now believes himself to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Boden (Gene Evans) was a brilliant scientist who was driven insane by the knowledge of nuclear weapons and now has the mental capacity of a six year old. Martin Scorsese said that Stuart, Trent, and Boden represent the insanities of war, racism, and nuclear weapons respectively and I think that that's what Fuller's intentions were. Scorsese also pointed out that Fuller was showcasing in these characters that the United States had become like an insane asylum. I recommend Shock Corridor though I must point out. It is not for the faint hearted.

sunznc Shock Corridor is a tired melodrama with actors who probably played long term roles in soaps at some point. The acting feels like something from a soap in this dated film. The entire premise of the film is ridiculous and the story is predictable. Peter Breck plays a reporter who is coached by a psychiatrist on what to say and how to act so that he can be committed in a mental hospital. No psychiatrist would do this so it's hard to take anything seriously thereafter.The acting is okay but the script is dull. The film has a tedious feel to it and one wants things to move quicker. The film is black and white but oddly enough, any patient flashbacks are in color. Why not just film everything in color? Oh, black and white feels more stark. Right.I suppose there are certain scenes that command ones attention but for the most part, this is tired, tepid stuff and just isn't original enough to make any impact. I think most people will be bored and won't want to sit through this twice.