Well, at least there's a bit of romanticism in this psychiatric melodrama with, there's I don't know what romantic, of the poor romanticism of the '40s 2nd hand cinema, and perhaps mostly Price's dark charm and unsettling voice. His performance gives interest to this movie.
Vincent Price does the perfidious villain—like Grant, Cotten, Rathbone, an elite of the acting. even looked a bit like Rathbone—and uglier Rathbone.
A woman witnesses a murder, she sees, from her hotel room where she was waiting for her husband, she sees a guy killing his wife, and she, this hidden witness, falls in a shock, becoming still and expressionless; and then she becomes the patient of the man whom she saw murdering someone. The doctor understands immediately that the traumatized woman saw him killing his wife.
The title might allude to young woman's shock; but also to the insulin shock therapy applied by the perfidious physician. And maybe it wisely alludes to both .
SHOCK's script (by someone named Eugene Ling) is extremely poor, nothing except the bare anecdote; the directing (by a certain Alfred Werker) seems almost good, anyway superior to the script.
Vincent Price does the perfidious villain—like Grant, Cotten, Rathbone, an elite of the acting. even looked a bit like Rathbone—and uglier Rathbone.
A woman witnesses a murder, she sees, from her hotel room where she was waiting for her husband, she sees a guy killing his wife, and she, this hidden witness, falls in a shock, becoming still and expressionless; and then she becomes the patient of the man whom she saw murdering someone. The doctor understands immediately that the traumatized woman saw him killing his wife.
The title might allude to young woman's shock; but also to the insulin shock therapy applied by the perfidious physician. And maybe it wisely alludes to both .
SHOCK's script (by someone named Eugene Ling) is extremely poor, nothing except the bare anecdote; the directing (by a certain Alfred Werker) seems almost good, anyway superior to the script.