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* HollywoodLaw: The movie acts like the murderer has been nailed when Johnny beats him into a confession. In reality, that would be inadmissible in court. The only witness is also a delusional mental patient who thinks he's a little boy most of the time. So it's likely the murderer would go free.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Johnny fakes desiring and attempting it with his pretend sister to get committed.
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* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Johnny solves the mystery, the murderer is caught, and Johnny gets his Pulitzer. But his obsession leads to his mentally snapping--he is now catatonic, and a patient at the asylum. And there seems to be no hope for Cathy reconciling with him.]]
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* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Johnny solves the mystery, the murderer is caught, and Johnny gets his Pulitzer. But his obsession leads to his him mentally snapping--he is now catatonic, and a patient at the asylum. And there seems to be no hope for Cathy reconciling with him.]]
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Johnny is traumatized by the nymphomaniacs' advances.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Averted in the case of Boden and Stuart and some of the other inmates who are harmless, but it's certainly true of Trent, the nymphomaniacs and Johnny.
* InternalizedCategorism: Trent has experienced so much bigotry that he starts mouthing them and even sports a Ku Klux Klan outfit despite being African-American.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Averted {{Averted}} in the case of Boden and Stuart and some of the other inmates who are harmless, but it's certainly true of Trent, the nymphomaniacs and Johnny.
* InternalizedCategorism: Trent has experienced so much bigotry that he starts mouthingthem slurs and even sports a Ku Klux Klan outfit despite being African-American.
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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.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: A mild version with the drawings in the Nympho ward.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: A mild version with the drawings in the Nympho ward.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The whole movie, with it's over-the-top satire satire, is filled with this. The Trent episode is especially bold.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: A mild version with the drawings in theNympho nympho ward.
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* SplashOfColor: While the movie is produced in black and white, the nightmares/visions of the characters are depicted in color.
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* SplashOfColor: While the movie is produced in black and white, the nightmares/visions of the characters are depicted in color. This is actually footage Fuller shot for a planned adventure film in Brazil's Karaja community, that ultimately got cancelled.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Johnny wanted to solve the mystery of the murder at the asylum and get to the bottom of the case. To do so he enters as a mental patient [[spoiler:and finally goes insane for good]].
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* CentralTheme: America is a madhouse!
* 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]].
* 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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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Averted in the case of Boden and Stuart and some of the other inmates who are harmless, but it's certainly true of Trent, the nymphomaniacs and Johnny.
* InternalizedCategorism: Trent has experienced so much bigotry that he starts mouthing them and even sports a Ku Klux Klan outfit despite being African-American.
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* SocietyIsToBlame: All the inmates in the asylum are driven mad by certain ugly facets of American society.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Johnny is traumatized by the nymphomaniacs' advances.
* EnthrallingSiren: The nymphomaniacs use the songs "My Bonnie" and "Java Jive" as siren songs.
* GeniusDitz: Dr. Boden, a brilliant nuclear scientist, has regressed to the mental level of a six-year old, spending his time drawing crude childish pictures and playing hide-and-go-seek.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Pagliacci views everything as an opera, often imitating the movements of an orchestral conductor around the other inmates. When Johnny screams during a panic attack, Pagliacci mistakes it for a sour note.
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* IrisOut: The movie starts with an Iris-In effect on the long asylum corridor.
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* NapoleonDelusion: Stuart believes that he's UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar general J. E. B. Stuart.
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* ShoutOut: Music/JohnZorn's album ''Music/{{Radio}}'' has a track called "Shock Corridor".
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* {{Fanservice}}: Cathy's song number in a skimpy Vegas show-girl outfit.
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* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Johnny solves the mystery, the murderer is caught, and Johnny gets his Pulitzer. But his obsession leads to his mentally snapping--he is now catatonic, and a patient at the asylum. And there seems to be no hope for Cathy reconciling with him.]]
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1963 drama directed by SamuelFuller.
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Johnny, trying to convince the shrink of his sanity.
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* FatBestFriend: The gigantic opera singer.singer instantly befriends Johnny.
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* BedlamHouse: The asylum has this disfunctional dysfunctional feel to it.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Johnny's speaking imparement in critial situations as a result of the electroshock therapy.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Johnny's speaking imparement impairment in critial critical situations as a result of the electroshock therapy.
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Cathy's crazy love for Johnny.
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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 [[PoliceIsUseless [[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 [[PoliceIsUseless the police have been unable to extract the information. information]]. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, [[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 three [[RuleOfThree three]] inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a 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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1963 drama directed by SamuelFuller. 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 three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a 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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1963 drama directed by SamuelFuller.
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 three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a 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 ...
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 three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a 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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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Trent mentions this twice in his hate speeches.speeches.
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* BoomerangBigot: Trent, as a self-proclaimed black Klansman.
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: A mild version with the drawings in the Nymph room.ward.
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* FatBestFriend: The gigantic opera singer
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* DrivenToMadness: TheMovie
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* FatBestFriend: The gigantic opera
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1963 drama directed by SamuelFuller. 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 three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a 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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!!This film provides examples of:
* BedlamHouse: The asylum has this disfunctional feel to it.
* CannotSpitItOut: Johnny's speaking imparement in critial situations as a result of the electro shock therapy.
* DrivenToMadness: TheMovie
* FatBestFriend: The gigantic opera singer
* FlippingTheTable: Happens during the disupute at the canteen.
* InnerMonologue: Johnny's thoughts are the main narrative.
* NightmareCatapult: Trend is performing one of these.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: Wilkes anyway.
* PunctuatedPounding: Who! Killed! Sloan! (Johnny pounding Wilken's head on the floor)
* PunishmentBox: Johnny is threatened by the warden to receive this treatment.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In the opening scene, Cathy is giving one of these to Johnny concerning his obsession.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: A mild version with the drawings in the Nymph room.
* SanitySlippage: Johnny's losing it towards the end, becoming a legit inmate of the asylum.
* SplashOfColor: While the movie is produced in black and white, the nightmares/visions of the characters are depicted in color.
* TalkativeLoon: Trent in particular.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Trent mentions this twice in his hate speeches.
1963 drama directed by SamuelFuller. 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 three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a 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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!!This film provides examples of:
* BedlamHouse: The asylum has this disfunctional feel to it.
* CannotSpitItOut: Johnny's speaking imparement in critial situations as a result of the electro shock therapy.
* DrivenToMadness: TheMovie
* FatBestFriend: The gigantic opera singer
* FlippingTheTable: Happens during the disupute at the canteen.
* InnerMonologue: Johnny's thoughts are the main narrative.
* NightmareCatapult: Trend is performing one of these.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: Wilkes anyway.
* PunctuatedPounding: Who! Killed! Sloan! (Johnny pounding Wilken's head on the floor)
* PunishmentBox: Johnny is threatened by the warden to receive this treatment.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In the opening scene, Cathy is giving one of these to Johnny concerning his obsession.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: A mild version with the drawings in the Nymph room.
* SanitySlippage: Johnny's losing it towards the end, becoming a legit inmate of the asylum.
* SplashOfColor: While the movie is produced in black and white, the nightmares/visions of the characters are depicted in color.
* TalkativeLoon: Trent in particular.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Trent mentions this twice in his hate speeches.
