The film follows (Peter Breck), an ambitious journalist obsessed with winning the Pulitzer Prize . He hatches a dangerous plan to solve the murder of an inmate at a state mental hospital by feigning insanity to get committed.
Fuller uses the asylum as a microcosm for the madness of America , with each witness representing a specific national trauma: Shock Corridor: Lindywood Confidential | Current Shock Corridor (1963)
Released in 1963, is a landmark psychological thriller written, directed, and produced by Samuel Fuller . Renowned for its raw, "two-fisted" approach to filmmaking, it serves as a scathing allegory of American social ills during the early 1960s. Plot Summary The film follows (Peter Breck), an ambitious journalist