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Journalist Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) thinks that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. He convinces an expert psychiatrist to coach him to appear insane; this involves relating imaginary accounts of incest with his "sister", who is impersonated by his exotic-dancer girlfriend (Constance Towers). Barrett convinces the authorities and is locked up in the institution where the murder took place. While pursuing his investigation, he is disturbed by the behavior of his fellow inmates.

The three witnesses to the murder were driven insane by the stresses of war, bigotry or fear of nuclear annihilation.

• Stuart, the son of a Southern sharecropper who was taught bigotry and hatred as a child, became cynical and angry with the country of his birth. He was captured in the Korean War and was brainwashed into becoming a Communist. Stuart was ordered to indoctrinate a fellow prisoner, but instead the prisoner's unwavering patriotism reformed him. Stuart's captors pronounced him insane and he was returned to the US in a prisoner exchange, after which he received a dishonorable discharge and was publicly reviled as a traitor. Stuart now imagines himself to be Confederate States of America General J.E.B. Stuart.
• Trent was one of the first black students to integrate a segregated Southern university. He now imagines himself a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and stirs up the patients with white nationalist dogma.
• Boden was an atomic scientist scarred by the knowledge of the devastating power of intercontinental ballistic missiles. He has regressed to the mentality of a six-year-old child.

After a hospital riot, Barrett is straitjacketed and subjected to shock treatment. Barrett begins imagining that his girlfriend really is his sister, and experiences many other symptoms of mental breakdown. He learns the identity of the killer and violently extracts a confession from him in front of witnesses and writes his story. His mind is critically damaged, however, and he has to stay in the hospital for an undefined period of time. Cathy breaks down crying as a doctor tells her that Barrett is now a "catatonic schizophrenic."

• Peter Breck ... Johnny Barrett
• Constance Towers ... Cathy
• Gene Evans ... Boden
• James Best ... Stuart
• Hari Rhodes ... Trent
• Larry Tucker ... Pagliacci
• Paul Dubov ... Dr. Menkin
• Chuck Roberson ... Wilkes
• Bill Zuckert ... Swanson
• Philip Ahn ... Dr. Fong

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 16 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 7.7/10. Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film three out of a possible four stars, calling it " Powerful melodrama with raw, emotional impact."

Historical importance

In 1996, Shock Corridor was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Concurrent with the release of the film in 1963, Belmont Books released a novelization of the screenplay, written by one of the era's most ubiquitous and distinctive paperback pulpsmiths, Michael Avallone. This tie-in title itself earned a share of cult fandom, and was re-released in paperback, in 1990, by UK publisher Xanadu, as part of their Blue Murder mystery imprint.

• In The Naked Kiss (1964), another film directed by Fuller, and starring Towers, the theater outside the bus station is playing Shock Corridor.
• In The Dreamers (2003), the main character is watching Shock Corridor at the beginning.

• Nellie Bly, a journalist who feigned insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.
• Shock Treatment, a 1964 film similarly set in a mental institution.
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a 1975 film also having a mental institution as its setting.
• List of American films of 1963
• Mental illness in film