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Criterion Collection: Shock Corridor

By Samuel Fuller

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Criterion Collection: Shock Corridor

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New, restored high-definition digital transfer New video interview with star Constance Towers Excerpts from The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera-a 1996 documentary Original theatrical trailer PLUS: Illustrations by cartoonist Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World) In Shock Corridor, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller (The Naked Kiss, The Big Red One) masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and dementia. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, madness closes in on him. Constance Towers (The Naked Kiss) costars as Johnny’s coolheaded stripper girlfriend. With its startling commentary on race in sixties America and daring photography by Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter), Shock Corridor is now recognized for its far-reaching influence.
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Release Date:
2011-01-18
Number of Discs:
1
Publisher:
Criterion
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
Weight:
113 g
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