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Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by [[RuleOfThree three]] inmates, from whom [[PoliceAreUseless the police have been unable to extract the information]]. With the connivance of a [[TheShrink psychiatrist]], and the reluctant help of his girlfriend Cathy (Creator/ConstanceTowers), he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...
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Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), (Creator/PeterBreck), an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by [[RuleOfThree three]] inmates, from whom [[PoliceAreUseless the police have been unable to extract the information]]. With the connivance of a [[TheShrink psychiatrist]], and the reluctant help of his girlfriend Cathy (Creator/ConstanceTowers), he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...
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* ShoutOut: Music/JohnZorn's album ''Music/{{Radio}}'' has a track called "Shock Corridor".
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* MistakenForIncest: This is a big plot point, where the protagonist is an ambitious journalist that pretends to have an incestuous fixation on his own sister (she is actually his girlfriend) in order to be committed to an asylum where he is pursuing a story. Completely PlayedForDrama.
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Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by [[RuleOfThree three]] inmates, from whom [[PoliceAreUseless the police have been unable to extract the information]]. With the connivance of a [[TheShrink psychiatrist]], and the reluctant help of his girlfriend Cathy (Constance Towers), he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...
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Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by [[RuleOfThree three]] inmates, from whom [[PoliceAreUseless the police have been unable to extract the information]]. With the connivance of a [[TheShrink psychiatrist]], and the reluctant help of his girlfriend Cathy (Constance Towers), (Creator/ConstanceTowers), he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...
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* DrivenToMadness: TheMovie.
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* DrivenToMadness: TheMovie.The whole point of it. It's about a journalist has himself declared insane in order to investigate the murder in the mental hospital. But he slowly losing his mind.
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* EnthrallingSiren: The nymphomaniacs use the songs "My Bonnie" and "Java Jive" as siren songs.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A self-inflicted example, as Johnny's prolonged exposure to the the asylum's atmosphere caused him to brainwashed himself into thinking he's really insane and believing in his own BrotherSisterIncest cover story.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A self-inflicted example, as Johnny's prolonged exposure to the the asylum's atmosphere caused him to brainwashed himself into thinking he's really insane and believing in his own BrotherSisterIncest cover story.
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* ElectricTorture: The electroshock treatment Johnny is given.
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* ElectricTorture: ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture: The electroshock treatment Johnny is given.given only makes him worse.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The whole movie, with it's over-the-top satire, is filled with this. The Trent episode is especially bold.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The whole movie, with it's its over-the-top satire, is filled with this. The Trent episode is especially bold.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A self-inflicted example, as Johnny's prolonged exposure to the the asylum's atmosphere caused him to brainwashed himself into thinking he's really insane and believing in his own cover story.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Johnny gradually believed his cover story was factual and he's really a mental patient.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Johnny gradually believed his BrotherSisterIncest cover story was factual and he's really a mental patient.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A self-inflicted example, as Johnny's prolonged exposure to the the asylum's atmosphere caused him to brainwashed himself into thinking he's really insane and believing in his own BrotherSisterIncest cover story.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By faking to be insane and vulnerably exposing himself to the mental hospital's environment, Johnny had unintentionally brainwashed himself into believing in his own cover story and he's actually insane.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By faking to be insane and vulnerably exposing himself to the mental hospital's environment, Johnny had unintentionally brainwashed himself into believing in his own BrotherSisterIncest cover story and he's actually insane.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Johnny's losing it towards the end, becoming a legit inmate of the asylum.
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* SanitySlippage: Johnny's losing it towards the end, becoming a legit inmate of the asylum.asylum, thereby BecomingTheMask as it was originally his cover.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A self-inflicted example, as Johnny's prolonged exposure to the the asylum's atmosphere caused him to brainwashed himself into thinking he's really insane and believing in his own cover story.
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* HeroicBreakdown: Johnny undergoes one as he is BecomingTheMask.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:By faking to be insane and vulnerably exposing himself to the mental hospital's environment, Johnny had unintentionally brainwashed himself into believing in his own cover story and he's actually insane.]]
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Stuart, a Korean War vet traumatized by his brainwashing by the DirtyCommunists and disgraced by the American public as a traitor.
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* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Johnny eventually goes from feigning insanity as a cover story to becoming insane for real by the end of the film.]]
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-->-- [[Creator/{{Euripides}}, 425 B.C.]]
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-->-- [[Creator/{{Euripides}}, Creator/{{Euripides}}, 425 B.C.]]
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->''"Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."''
-->-- [[Creator/{{Euripides}}, 425 B.C.]]
-->-- [[Creator/{{Euripides}}, 425 B.C.]]
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: All the inmates in the asylum are driven mad as a result of some failing in American society, whether it's the RedScare and Confederate Lost Cause, rampant bigotry, nuclear weapons and finally [[spoiler:tabloid journalism and obsession with fame]].
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: All the inmates in the asylum are driven mad as a result of some failing in American society, whether it's the RedScare and Confederate Lost Cause, rampant bigotry, nuclear weapons and finally or [[spoiler:tabloid journalism and obsession with fame]].
