Shock corridor
(DVD)

Bonus features: New video interview with star Constance Towers by film historian and filmmaker, Charles Dennis; The typewriter, the rifle & the movie camera [documentary on director Samuel Fuller] / The British Film Institute and The Independent Film Channel ; in association with Channel Four Television, Havoc Incorporated and The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film and Video present (ca. 55 min. ; 1996).

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.

Director of photography, Stanley Cortez ; film editor, Jerome Thoms ; music by Paul Dunlap.

Peter Breck, Constance Towers, James Best, Hari Rhodes, Gene Evans, Larry Tucker.

"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, insanity closes in on him. Constance Towers costars as Johnny's coolheaded stripper girlfriend. With its startling commentary on racism and other hot-button issues in sixties America and its daring photography by Stanley Cortez, Shock Corridor has had far-reaching influence." -- Container.

After he fakes madness and has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder, reporter Johnny Barrett really begins to lose his sanity.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, NTSC; monaural; 1.75:1 aspect ratio.

National Film Registry selection, 1996.