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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Samuel Fuller</title>
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		<title>CRITERION: SHOCK CORRIDOR</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Available at Amazon for $26.99

(Dan Schneider of http://www.cosmoetica.com/ is a special guest reviewer for OWF who will be tackling much loved, criminally forgotten and sometimes the over-rated cornerstones of cinema’s past. His website, containing his excellent cinema essays and reviews is a must visit)

Director Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor is one of those wildly aberrant works of art than can be called great, on some levels, and utter schlock, on other levels. And both are correct assessments of this film that can only be termed a didactic melodrama. What results, though, is that one is left with a so-so film- not the piece of pulp garbage that many reviewers first assailed the black and white film (with dream sequence snippets in color) as, upon its release in 1963, nor the masterpiece that revisionists have proffered in later auteur-based assessments. It had been almost a quarter century since I last watched the film, but recently popped in The Criterion Collection DVD of the film, and rediscovered its 'charms.'

Primary among those charms are the physical charms of the film's leading lady, Constance Towers, as Cathy the stripper, girlfriend to the film's lead, Peter Breck (of The Crawling Hand infamy), as daring journalist Johnny ...]]></description>
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