Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Shock corridor / a Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents ; a Leon Fromkess, Sam Firks production ; written, produced, directed by Samuel Fuller.

Edition:

DVD special ed.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 19

Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)

Subjects:

Mental illness -- Drama.

Psychiatric hospitals -- Drama.

Journalists -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Detective and mystery films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Fuller, Samuel, 1912-1997.

Fromkess, Leon.

Firks, Sam.

Breck, Peter.

Towers, Constance.

Best, James, 1926-2015.

Rhodes, Hari.

Evans, Gene, 1922-1998.

Tucker, Larry, 1934-2001.

Simon, Adam, 1962- Typewriter, the rifle and the movie camera.

Janus Films.

Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Typewriter, the rifle & the movie camera.

Notes:

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.

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

SDH (Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing).

National Film Registry selection, 1996.

Contents:

Bonus features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer -- Original theatrical trailer -- 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] (ca. 55 min. ; 1996 ; 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).

ISBN:

9781604653731

1604653736

9786313941902 : DVD

631394190X : DVD

Publisher Number:

CC1971

CC1971D

Other Number:

694633018

System Availability:

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