Samuel Fuller's - Shock Corridor - DVD Review Samuel Fuller Shock Corridor DVD Review Samuel Fuller Shock Corridor DVD Review Samuel Fuller Shock Corridor DVD Review Samuel Fuller Shock Corridor DVD Review Samuel Fuller Shock

USA 1963

Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, a reporter has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, madness closes in on him. Writer/director/producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and dementia.

Hmmm... This is the type of film that I love having in my collection. I remember a friend and I watching it together when it was first released on DVD... and we marveled at how bad it was. And I feel it still is in many production areas, but in the areas that really count Fuller is a master. It is honest and has an independent eroticism that is hard to define. Almost perfect match for The Naked Kiss, both are films that will haunt your cinematic sense and beg for re-visitation. Shock Corridor actually eclipses the word 'cool' to forge its own niche in cinema history. The social commentary is absurdly obvious... and perhaps intentionally so. It is just a DVD that you must own! out of

Gary W. Tooze

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Theatrical Release: 11 September 1963

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DVD Comparison:

Criterion Collection - Spine # 19 - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Wild Side Vidéo (Coffret Samuel Fuller) - Region 2 - PAL

Big thanks to Gary W. Tooze and Alain Dupont for the Screen Caps!

(Criterion Collection - Spine # 19 - Region 1 - NTSC - LEFT vs. Wild Side Vidéo (Coffret Samuel Fuller) - Region 2 - PAL - RIGHT)

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Distribution	Criterion Collection - Spine # 19 Region 1 - NTSC	Wild Side Vidéo Region 2 - PAL
Runtime	1:40:27	1:35:54 (4% PAL speedup)
Video	1:83:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.59 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s	1:33:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 8.41 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate: Criterion Collection - Spine # 19
Bitrate: Wild Side Vidéo (Coffret Samuel Fuller)
Audio	English Dolby Digital 1.0	English Dolby Digital 2.0, French Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles	None	French (non removable)
Features	Release Information: Studio: Criterion Collection - Spine # 19 Aspect Ratio: Widescreen letterboxed - 1:83:1 Edition Details: • Theatrical trailer (2:52) • Color bars • 2-page liner notes essay by Tim Hunter DVD Release Date: 25 August 1998 Keep Case Chapters 25	Release Information: Studio: Wild Side Vidéo Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen - 1:33:1 Edition Details: • Disc 1 : Shock Corridor (1963) • Disc 2 : The Naked Kiss (1964) • Same extras for both discs/movies : • Picture gallery, internet links and filmographies • DVD-ROM bonus : posters • Disc 3 : Extras • Documentaries : • Play it around Sam (French, 25:21) (Wild Side Vidéo documentary by Olivier Serrano about Fuller) • La machine à écrire, le fusil et le cinéaste (English, 27:26) • (excerpts from Adam Simon's 1996 documentary The Typewriter, The Rifle and the Movie Camera) • A 12-page booklet by Samuel Blumenfeld about Fuller, Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss (in French) DVD Release Date: 4 October 2005 Custom Case Chapters 12

Comments

The Region 2 looks overly bright, but possibly minutely sharper than the Criterion and its intentional soft- palette appearance. The Criterion is definitely more filmic in appearance. The Wild-Side has two major drawbacks though: non removable (but not very intrusive) white French subtitles. These subs are player generated and can be removed by some enterprising individual. On most computers you can watch both movies without subtitles.

Here is a translation of what Manuel Chiche, Director of Wild Side Vidéo, wrote in a French DVD forum about their Fuller boxset :

"Both Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss have been originally shot in the 1:37:1 aspect ratio. Blacks bars have subsequently been added for the theatrical releases. We present both films in their original aspect ratios."

Well, lots of stuff is originally shot in 4:3 but theatrically presented at a widescreen ratio - this is common. Cutting to the chase - It appears as though the Wild Side edition is the 'Open Matte' version of the film.

For extras, the PAL edition's are obviously superior. Wild Side's DVD has a 3rd disc containing documentaries. The first one is entitled "Play it again Sam" and is in French. IMPORTANT ! : the second one is in English and consists of excerpts (ONLY excerpts) from the documentary "The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera". Some movie excerpts appearing in the original documentary couldn't be shown because of rights issues (the British Film Institute hasn't given its authorization).

Lastly the Wild Side has some nice animated menus.

- Alain Dupont and Gary Tooze

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(Criterion Collection - Spine # 19 - Region 1 - NTSC - LEFT vs. Wild Side Vidéo (Coffret Samuel Fuller) - Region 2 - PAL - RIGHT)

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Distribution

Criterion Collection - Spine # 19

Region 1 - NTSC

Wild Side Vidéo
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