Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Justice Brennan refused to endorse the trial judge's ringing condemnation of all three Ginzburg products as themselves obscene and "a gross shock to the mind." Instead, Brennan nailed Ginzburg for salacious sales pitches. In one Eros brochure, he blatantly promised articles on "Incest in the American Midwest," "Was Shakespeare a Homosexual?" and "Sex in the Supermarket." Before Ginzburg acquired Handbook, its author, "Rey Anthony," printed it privately, sold 12,000 copies to assorted therapists, several of whom had testified at the trial that it proved useful in professional practice. Ginzburg's companies, said Brennan, went beyond this...
...Shock Corridor can be chalked up as Fuller's best film to date. In it, a reporter feigns incest to gin admittance to a state mental institution so that he can track down the killer or a patient. Inside the asylum, Fuller subjects the reporter to a 90-minute horror show of shock treatments, nymphomaniac outbursts, sexual degeneracy, catatonia, schizoid fantasy, and psychotic gluttony. Shock Corridor is the Marat/Sade of film, a moody, almost choreographed, nightmare...
Fuller shows the minds of the insane by cutting frequently to strange romantic sequences composed of footage from travelogues and newsreels. Otherwise, he eliminates any traces of romanticism: a striptease scene, filmed in harsh style completely detached from sexuality, is simply cold and ugly. The shock-treatment scene consists of a rapid montage of earlier shots and sounds superimposed attack of the nymphomaniacs, and the hero's hallucination of being struck by lightning in a rain-filled hospital corridor are among the most brilliantly executed scenes of the American film in this decade...
Like most tough films, Shock Corridor has a core of sentimentality. Its ending, however, doesn't falter: Fuller undercuts the expected resolution with a note of quiet prolonged horror. Fuller's movies must be seen to be believed; they can't adequately be described. Shock Corridor is not often shown, and the Adams House Film society is performing a small public service in screening it. It is an extremely important film, and perhaps a great...
...hospital with a broken leg, Toots was asked if he'd like a drink and, to show either the shock he was in or his sense of historic drama, he replied: "Yes, I'd like a Coke...