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Shock

  • 1946
  • Approved
  • 1h 10m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
3.6K
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Vincent Price and Lynn Bari in Shock (1946)
Film NoirDramaThriller

A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.

  • Director
    • Alfred L. Werker
  • Writers
    • Eugene Ling
    • Albert DeMond
    • Martin Berkeley
  • Stars
    • Vincent Price
    • Lynn Bari
    • Frank Latimore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    3.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alfred L. Werker
    • Writers
      • Eugene Ling
      • Albert DeMond
      • Martin Berkeley
    • Stars
      • Vincent Price
      • Lynn Bari
      • Frank Latimore
    • 86User reviews
    • 45Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Vincent Price
    Vincent Price
    • Dr. Richard Cross
    Lynn Bari
    Lynn Bari
    • Nurse Elaine Jordan
    Frank Latimore
    Frank Latimore
    • Lt. Paul Stewart
    Anabel Shaw
    Anabel Shaw
    • Mrs. Janet Stewart
    Stephen Dunne
    Stephen Dunne
    • Dr. Stevens
    • (as Michael Dunne)
    Reed Hadley
    Reed Hadley
    • District Attorney O'Neill
    Renee Carson
    • Miss Hatfield - Head Nurse
    Charles Trowbridge
    Charles Trowbridge
    • Dr. H.J. Harvey
    Robert Adler
    Robert Adler
    • Frank - Male Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Margaret Brayton
    • Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Harry Carter
    Harry Carter
    • Sanitarium Orderly
    • (uncredited)
    Ruth Clifford
    Ruth Clifford
    • Mrs. Margaret Cross
    • (uncredited)
    John Davidson
    John Davidson
    • Mr. Edwards
    • (uncredited)
    Selmer Jackson
    Selmer Jackson
    • Dr. Blair
    • (uncredited)
    Ruth Nelson
    Ruth Nelson
    • Mrs. Margaret Cross
    • (uncredited)
    Claire Richards
    • Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    George E. Stone
    George E. Stone
    • Cab Driver
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Tannen
    Charles Tannen
    • Hotel Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Alfred L. Werker
    • Writers
      • Eugene Ling
      • Albert DeMond
      • Martin Berkeley
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    6claudio_carvalho

    Reasonable Thriller

    In San Francisco, Mrs. Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) checks in a hotel late night to meet her husband Lieutenant Paul Stewart (Frank Latimore). However Paul does not arrive and Janet goes to the balcony in the middle of the night after a nightmare. She witnesses the renowned psychiatrist Dr. Richard Cross (Vincent Price) asking for the divorce to his wife and having an argument with her. Out of the blue, Dr. Cross kills her with a candlestick and Janet has a nervous collapse and stays catatonic in shock in her room.

    When Paul arrives and sees his wife, he summons Dr. Stevens (Michael Dunne). After the examination, Dr. Stevens tells that Janet has had a psychological breakdown and recommends Dr. Cross to treat her. When Dr. Cross comes to the room, he realizes that Janet might have seen him and he tells that she needs to be interned in his clinic. He calls Nurse Elaine Jordan (Lynn Bari), who is his lover, and they take Janet to their clinic. He decides to make Janet forget the incident but then they decide to discredit her proclaiming Janet insane. But when the District Attorney O'Neill (Reed Hadley) asks for the authorization to Dr. Cross to carry out an autopsy in his wife since he believes that she might have been murdered, Elaine tells that Dr. Cross must kill Janet.

    "Shock" is a reasonable thriller with a dated story of a woman that witnesses a murder and has a strange reaction, ending coincidently in the sanatorium of the killer. The performances are very decent but the greatest problem is the shameful low quality American DVD released by the DVD movie distributor. My vote is six.

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    Doylenf

    Modest programmer based on witness to murder theme...

    SHOCK hardly lives up to its promising title. It's a rather tepid little B&W thriller that serves only to remind us what VINCENT PRICE was like just as his career was beginning to take shape at Fox. As usual, he's at his best as a shady character, a doctor who commits a crime of passion only to find out that it has been witnessed by a woman neighbor. Annabel Shaw plays the woman who goes into shock after witnessing the crime--a performance that is not quite as riveting as it should be for this type of suspense yarn. The suspense lies in wondering how Price will deal with the woman. Lynn Bari is his cohort in keeping the crime away from the police.

    It's a premise that has been used countless times, often to better advantage than it is here. Worthwhile for some suspenseful moments at Price's sanitarium but none of the suspense is milked for all it's worth. Frank Latimore does nicely as the husband whose wife has gone into shock after her traumatic witnessing of murder and Reed Hadley does a smooth job as a detective.

    Modestly entertaining if you don't expect too much.
    9BrandtSponseller

    Suspenseful film, rises above potboiler status

    While Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) is waiting for her husband, Paul (Frank Latimore), whom she hasn't seen in over two years (he's been at war and at one point was thought to be dead), to meet her at a hotel, she witnesses an argument and then a murder in another room. She goes into shock, and is taken to a mental hospital for treatment. Unfortunately, Richard Cross (Vincent Price), the doctor treating her, is the same man she witnessed committing murder.

    Although somewhat of a potboiler and a bit short on running time per today's standards, Shock is a tightly scripted, directed and acted thriller. As usual, Price is at the top of his game here, and any Price fans who haven't seen this film yet will want to check it out. The rest of the cast is also fantastic, and Shaw particularly stands out when she's on screen (which is not as often as we might like, but given the story, a necessity). Suspense is maintained throughout the film--even in the minor scenes. There was even a fair amount of tension in the opening when Janet Stewart is first checking into the hotel.

    My score is 9 out of 10. I only subtracted one point for the ending, which came too soon and a bit too abruptly for my tastes. However, given typical studio restrictions during this era, when it was mandatory that the "bad guys" get their just deserts, the ending is also admirable for its relative ambiguity. It is almost similar in style to Stanley Kubrick's lauded ending of The Killing (1956), which also tried its best to circumvent the just deserts conclusions, though Shock predates the Kubrick film by 10 years.
    7bkoganbing

    Done On A Dime And In A Hurry

    According to the Films Of Vincent Price from the Citadel Film Series, sometime in late 1945 Darryl Zanuck was on one of his budget cutting kicks and was looking to produce cheaper films. Vincent Price was offered the story of Shock and liked it and said he could get it done under 20 days with no interference. Zanuck gave him his head on this one and Price and director Alfred Werker brought it in 19 days shooting time.

    Shock was also the film that Vincent Price got top billing for the first time in his career. He plays a psychiatrist who kills his wife because she won't give him a divorce to marry the sultry Lynn Bari. The problem is that young war wife Anabel Shaw who is anxiously waiting the return of a husband who was thought missing in action in the Pacific sees him through the window of her room at the hotel they're both staying at.

    Shaw's got a lot of issues and she collapses and goes into Shock. It's recommended that she go to a sanitarium and husband Frank Latimore now returned takes her to a highly regarded one that is run by both Price and Bari. I don't think I have to go any further.

    Shock may have been done on a dime and in a hurry, but it's well constructed and was the film that opened new vistas for Vincent Price's career. Price elicits a lot of audience sympathy being caught by mantrap Lynn Bari. As for Bari I don't think she was ever sexier or more dangerous. Stronger men than Price might have killed for her.

    Definitely a must for the still strong legion of fans that Vincent Price has.
    7lastliberal

    You've got a headache. I can tell from your eyes.

    Tom Cruise might hold this film up as evidence on the evils of Psychiatry.

    Vincent Price murders his wife, and this is witnessed by a woman (Anabel Shaw) waiting on her husband (Frank Latimore) to return from a POW Camp. She lapses into catatonia and Price is called to help. He realizes what she may have seen and whisks her off to his sanitarium to see what she knows.

    The film also features Lynn Bari, second only to Betty Grable in WWII pin-up popularity according to a GI's poll taken at the time, as the lover of Vincent Price and his collaborator in the abuse of Shaw.

    Ending was a little far fetched, but Price was great in his pre-horror days.

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    • Trivia
      While on the set one day, Lynn Bari was talking with co-star Anabel Shaw and mentioned that she was a direct descendant, on her mother's side, of Revolutionary War hero Alexander Hamilton. Shaw revealed that she was a direct descendant of Aaron Burr, the man who killed Hamilton in the famous duel.
    • Goofs
      Insulin is injected subcutaneously. The needle Dr. Cross uses is for intravenous use.
    • Quotes

      Lt. Paul Stewart: Well, if you give Janet this insulin, how certain can you be it'll help her?

      Dr. Richard Cross: I'm neither a miracle man nor a prophet, Lieutenant. If medicine were an exact science, not an art, I might be able to tell you.

    • Connections
      Edited into Schlock! (2009)

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    • Release date
      • February 1, 1946 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Streaming on "Baka o Mestre de Obras" YouTube Channel
      • Streaming on "Classic Movie Time" YouTube Channel
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Chock
    • Filming locations
      • Backlot, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Budget
      • $375,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 10m(70 min)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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