# 19 - Shock Corridor (1963)

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Podcast: [Random Acts of Cinema](https://stenobird.com/podcast/random-acts-of-cinema-17730)
Published: 2026-02-10T07:51:20+00:00
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## Resource

Samuel Fuller turns a critical eye on the state of mental health treatment in the United States to, uh… well, not really. Mostly he just uses a stage theater's idea of a mental hospital as a narrative device for exploring three major American anxieties in the 1960s. Want to complain about nukes? Have a patient do a one-man show for a while about how we went insane after building them. And you know what, that's the tame one of the three. For a B-movie about a reporter going undercover in a mental ward to solve a murder, things get wild. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Guy Maddon's My Winnipeg (12007).

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