Wednesday | April 25, 2007 9:00 pm

Shock Corridor

Screening on Film

Directed by Samuel Fuller.
With Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans.
US, 1963, 35mm, color, 101 min.
Print source: UCLA

An ambitious newspaper reporter attempts to infiltrate a psychiatric hospital and locate an elusive killer by convincing a psychiatrist to admit him as an inmate. Among the absurd characters populating the asylum is an African-American who thinks he is a member of the KKK. But, Fuller’s critique of American society is most eloquently voiced through the character of a disgraced Korean war veteran, brainwashed by Communists, who pleads for understanding.

April 25 – May 8, 2007

Alex de la Iglesia: Films and Inspirations

March 7–April 25, 2007

Poetic Horror, Pop Existentialism and Cheap Sci-Fi: Cold War Cinema 1948–1964

June 19–August 30, 2015

The Complete Samuel Fuller

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco