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	shock - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about shock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In shock, the blood pressure falls below that necessary to supply the tissues of the body, especially the brain.
		Rest is needed, and, in the case of severe blood loss, restoration of the normal circulating volume.
		Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravian, she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /shock (230 words)

	DVD Times: Region 0 Reviews: Shock Corridor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shock Corridor is about Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), a fearsomely ambitious journalist who gets himself locked up in a mental hospital in order both to investigate a murder and to win a Pulitzer Prize - significantly, he seems more attracted by the prospect of the latter than the former.
		What gives Shock Corridor and Naked Kiss their visual distinction is cinematography by the great Stanley Cortez, whose CV also includes Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons and Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter, two of the most extraordinarily atmospheric fl-and-white films ever made.
		He's one of the cinema's great originals, and Shock Corridor is as good a place to start exploring his work as any.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /reviews/other/shockcorridor.html (594 words)

	Shock Corridor
		Shock Corridor is the perfect title for a Sam Fuller movie, taut and sensational, limned with B-movie luridity.
		It becomes quite obvious less than halfway through Shock Corridor that only the third of Johnny's three witnesses will provide Johnny with clues he can use (is it ever any other way?), and that by then he will be too far gone into his own mental fog to possibly make use of them.
		Shock Corridor is not uncovering any social fact or psychological compulsion that can credibly generalize this narrative into a worthy critique of the culture.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /shockcor.html (1172 words)

	Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor
		Shock Corridor is the aptly named 1963 B-movie psychodrama from the vigorously independent mind of American film auteur Samuel Fuller.
		It's part of the grim irony of Shock Corridor that Johnny, fixated on solving the murder, misses his chance to write a "real" Pulitzer Prize winning story about the sad lives of these three patients -- Stuart, Dr Boden, and Trent -- who are ultimately the raison d'etre of the movie.
		Breck is able to capture Johnny's slide to dementia in a finely-paced performance, climaxing in an incredible corridor scene where he runs from closed door to closed door, as the hard rain pelts down and the lightening crashes.
	www.culturecourt.com /Ajo/film/ShockC.htm (2391 words)

	DVD : Shock Corridor - Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Criterion is proud to present Shock Corridor in a gorgeous, grey and white widescreen transfer with its rarely-seen colour sequences.
		'Shock Corridor', Fuller's grand social commentary sold as a thrill-ride, is one of those immortal films, like Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' or Ray's 'Rebel Without A Cause' that contain all of cinema in their frames.
		The great Bertolucci who would later quote 'Shock Corridor' in his beautiful ode to cinema, 'The Dreamers', in one of that film's most electrifying displays of cinephillia as the character compares the experience of seeing a Fuller film to that of being hypnotized.
	www.firesidelounge.info /0780021096/Shock_Corridor-Criterion_Co11ection.shtml (2352 words)

	DVD Times - Shock Corridor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shock Corridor is part of a double disc presentation from Metrodome that also features Samuel Fuller's 1964 film The Naked Kiss.
		Once banned by the BBFC for it's supposed sensationalism of mental illness, Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor is a remarkable film.
		Colour is also sometimes used in a shocking way, that serves to highlight the gulf between the characters thoughts and their actual situation and Fuller's experimentation with technique and form is always a joy to watch.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=6063 (1330 words)

	the chutry experiment: Shock Corridor
		Shock Corridor is the 1963 film that the cinephiles are watching...
		Shock Corridor is the 1963 film that the cinephiles are watching during the opening sequence of Bertolucci's The Dreamers, and after seeing Fuller's film, I can see why the French New Wave filmmakers admired it so much.
		Shock Corridor is about Johnny Barrett, an ambitious newspaper reporter who hopes to win a Pulitzer by going undercover as a mental patient in order to solve a mysterious murder.
	chutry.wordherders.net /archives/002498.html (1026 words)

	DVD Booty - Shock Corridor - Criterion Collection
		If you recommend "Shock Corridor" to a friend, you can bet he or she won't like it.
		Unfortunately some of the audio synchronicity in SHOCK CORRIDOR is appalling, especially in this scene and as a result the potential power of this sequence is lessened somewhat.
		The combo of b&w photography with a shady atmosphere help to give SHOCK CORRIDOR a chillingly brilliant claustrophobic feel, which is so effective that while watching it you feel that you are incarcerated along with Barrett and suffering with him.
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/shock-corridor-criterion-collection (782 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Sam Fuller: Shock Corridor
		But faced by the inmates, one of whom was once a genius who helped make the atomic bomb and who may or may not have witnessed the murder, Johnny's own mind begins to snap.
		Shock Corridor, though, is a good introduction to the artless art of a true original.
		I did two Guardian interviews with him at the National Film Theatre, when he was a still incredibly energetic old man. But by then, chewing his regulation cigar and spitting out aphorisms, he had cast himself in the guise expected by his adoring fans.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,63842,00.html (536 words)

	EUFS: Shock Corridor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But it's difficult to be a sane man in an insane place and the atmosphere of the shock corridor' proves to be infectious.
		Director and often writer and/or producer of his films, Fuller was a true auteur, whose idiosyncratic "tabloid" or "American primitive" style has become an acknowledged influence on countless contemporary directors, from Godard to Wenders to Tarantino.
		I can't recommend Shock Corridor, or Fuller's films in general, highly enough.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/shock_corridor.html (339 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Shock Corridor (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Maverick film director Samuel Fuller was doing some of his best work in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and in the years since its release in 1963, Shock Corridor has become a B-movie classic and a prime example of Fuller's gritty tabloid style.
		Never hesitant to explore the darkened corners of contemporary life, Fuller depicts the chambers of an insane asylum as a microcosm of American society, telling the story of a cynical, ambitious journalist (Peter Breck) whose obsessive quest for a Pulitzer Prize leads him into the depths of madness.
		Alternately brilliant and infuriating, Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor is without question a one-of-a-kind film.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780021096 (1621 words)

	JG Ballard: High-Rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Variously described as a spaceship, or a "Pandora's Box whose thousand lids were one by one opening inward", the giant housing structure is a marvel of technologies which Ballard credits for freeing its occupants.
		Unlike the middle-class of Millennium People, who run amok in self-indulgent destruction, the tenants of High Rise seem to be caught in a vortex which has no apparent beginning, and which escalates along a relentless geometry of violence until the new order, the new society, roughly forms itself from the ashes of the old.
		High-Rise can both shock and exhilarate its reader, and its insistence that the “ends justify the means” reinforces Ballard’s geometry of violence: personal salvation is a lonely, harsh, and demanding mistress, whose lonely logic is impeccable and implacable, no matter where it leads.
	www.rickmcgrath.com /highrise.html (2963 words)

	SHOCK CORRIDOR - Review by Austen Zuege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The story throughout SHOCK CORRIDOR has remained constant with the fundamentals of any civilization.
		The savages have killed their philosophers again--or at least destroyed them by driving them mad.
		SHOCK CORRIDOR has us witness personal identity destroyed in institutions.
	www.bluedark.com /reviews/movies/Shock_Corridor.htm (540 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Naked Kiss, The / Shock Corridor [1964] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 'Shock Corridor' a newspaper reporter investigating an unusual murder has his sights set on winning the Pulitzer Prize and rashly commits himself to a mental hospital where the murder was committed to find the culprit.
		'Shock Corridor', which obviously turned out to be a cult favourite, directed by maverick independent filmmaker and former journalist Fuller, makes no excuses for itself, and its style is swaggeringly confident, blending pulp and downright tawdriness with high melodrama and noir, in unforgettable, dramatically lit images.
		Of all the films I have seen, few have left their mark on me like Shock Corridor.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000UM0N0 (909 words)

	`Shock Corridor's' Acting Might Drive Viewers Around the Bend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It's possible that Sam Fuller went nuts during the making of ``Shock Corridor.'' I don't really want to believe that, but after looking at Fuller's wild 1963 melodrama, which opens today at the Roxie Cinema, I couldn't help but entertain the notion.
		Shot on stark sets with menacing camera angles and jam-packed with hysterical, fever- pitch acting, ``Corridor'' may be Fuller's (``I Shot Jesse James,'' ``The Baron of Arizona'') most lurid, preposterous film.
		``Shock Corridor'' may not be particularly good, despite what Fuller-revering French critics have written, but it's sure entertaining.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/10/10/DD59682.DTL (441 words)

	Terminus - Shock Corridor (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The acting is abysmal, the dialogue is shockingly bad, and the depiction of mental illness is offensively unsophisticated.
		The final patient is a nuclear physicist who had been instrumental in the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, but now has the mental capacity of a six-year-old.
		Each of these characters is given a brief dream sequence, shot in vibrant color, which is shocking amidst the muted fl and white of the rest of the film.
	terminus.powerblogs.com /posts/1104553849.shtml (813 words)

	Pickup on South Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It often seems like his primary impulse as a director was to keep the audience awake.
		The Naked Kiss only let up when they've got the biggest shock of all coming around the next corner.
		His nihilism is complete and in 1953 that was quite shocking.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies8/Pickup.htm (568 words)

	Shock Corridor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shock Corridor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Shock Corridor is a 1962 film which tells the story of a journalist who gets himself committed to a (A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person) mental hospital in order to track the story of an unsolved murder.
		It stars (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Breck) Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari Rhodes and Larry Tucker.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shock_corridor.htm (80 words)

	The DVD Journal: Quick Reviews: Shock Corridor: The Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It's not very surprising that a film from 1963 would take an antiquated view of the mentally ill, but it is a shock that a film from quirky, tough-guy director Sam Fuller would be so dull.
		Peter Breck (who looks a lot like Alec Baldwin) stars as a newspaper reporter bent on winning the Pulitzer by conning the system and being institutionalized in the crazy house.
		Criterion's 1.85:1 transfer of this well-shot fl and white film is good despite some unfortunate sporadic damage to the source print.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/shockcorridor.q.html (270 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Shock Corridor : Main
		Shock Corridor represents filmmaker Samuel Fuller at his most excessive, but we wouldn't h...
		Shock Corridor represents filmmaker Samuel Fuller at his most excessive, but we wouldn't have it otherwise.
		Peter Breck plays a ruthless journalist who believes that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/31469/moviemain.jhtml (134 words)

	Play.com (UK) : Shock Corridor / Naked Kiss : DVD - Free Delivery
		In 'Shock Corridor', a Pulitzer Prize hungry reporter feigns madness to infiltrate the scene of a brutal murder: a county asylum.
		And a fiery call girl seeks refuge and a new life in small town USA but can't escape either her terrible past nor her drastic choices in 'The Naked Kiss'.
		Previously banned by the BBFC and now available for the first time in the UK on DVD, 'Shock Corridor' is presented in Sam Fuller's original cut complete with colour footage and inserts lost in previous transfers.
	www.play.com /play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=138655&p=57&g=72 (311 words)

	Shock Corridor . The Boston Phoenix . 08-17-98
		Shock Corridor (1963) gives us Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) as a cocky reporter determined to solve a murder at a mental institution.
		Getting his stripper girlfriend (Constance Towers) to pose as his sister, he feigns incestuous urges, is committed, meets the locals, undergoes electro-shock, and by gum exposes the killer and gets that Pulitzer -- but at the cost of his own sanity.
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	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/boston/s/shockcorridor1.html (133 words)

	channel4.com/film - Shock Corridor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It's the ideal term for Shock Corridor which is unsubtle - preposterous even - but packs one hell of a punch.
		It so shocked prurient 1960s censors in the UK that they refused to give the film a certificate.
		Johnny Barrett (Breck) is an ambitious reporter, convinced that he will win the Pulitzer prize if he can solve a murder inside an insane asylum.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=108242 (317 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Shock Corridor : Review
		While pursuing his investigation, Breck is sidetracked by the loopy behavior of his fellow inmates.
		During a hospital riot, Breck is straightjacketed and subjected to shock treatment.
		Typical of the Fuller ouevre, the characters in Shock Corridor are either saved or destroyed by their individual obsessions.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/31469/review.jhtml (228 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Shock Corridor
		Here is an honest, visionary, pulp film, stripped of all romanticism, with characterizations and themes more real and relevant today than ever.
		To watch Shock Corridor now is to experience the complex, wacky, full-blown masterpiece of one of Hollywood’s great originals, Samuel Fuller.
		This one is a shoo-in for Best American Film of 1963.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=19&eid=32§ion=essay (331 words)

	Shock Corridor: Criterion Collection on DVD - MovieWeb
		Shock Corridor: Criterion Collection on DVD - MovieWeb
		In SHOCK CORRIDOR, a journalist (Peter Breck) hoping to get a scoop on a murder suspect has himself committed to a mental institution where the inmates have information on the culprit.
		As the film unfolds, the purity of the hero's mission is undercut by his own monomaniacal ego.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?037429125922 (260 words)

	shock corridor - review at videovista.net
		Initially banned by the BBFC, Shock Corridor has long since been elevated beyond mere cult status, and acclaimed by the likes of Derek Malcolm and Tom Milne.
		Excepting The Crimson Kimino (1959), I think Shock Corridor is by far the bravest and most impressive of Sam Fuller's early pictures, and the director only bettered this exercise in savage humour when he returned to filmmaking with the semi-autobiographical war story, The Big Red One (1980).
		Much has been written about Shock Corridor as a metaphor for the lunacy and brittleness of modern American life, and the asylum here does present a salt and sour microcosm of the US, with the chronic madness of its characters offering carnivalesque mirror views of familiar American stereotypes.
	www.videovista.net /reviews/jan04/shockcorridor.html (526 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Shock Corridor / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Shock Corridor (1963) - 3 out of 5 (11/11/1998)
		Samuel Fuller, who recently past away, was known in his day as one of the 'bad boy' directors in Hollywood.
	www.dvdempire.com /exec/v4_item.asp?partner_id=10007441&item_id=2351 (216 words)

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