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"Shock Treatment": 1964's All-Star Asylum Attention Seekers!

What happens when hot shot actor Stuart Whitman is hired to infiltrate a sanitarium & finds he can't get out? In "Shock Treatment," every cliche character & plot twist was used to shock 1964 audiences, but today plays like camp. Lauren Bacall is the institution's single-minded doctor. Roddy McDowall is the homicidal lunatic who Whitman is assigned to investigate. Carol Lynley is the lovely young frigid/nympho patient that Whitman wants to know better! Absurd but fun chills, my look @ schlocky "Shock"...

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by Anonymousreply 10October 31, 2023 8:15 PM

Here's the best free copy of "Shock Treatment" I could find, from YouTube. Young Stuart Whitman reminds me of Colin Farrell in this thriller...

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by Anonymousreply 1October 31, 2023 12:52 AM

Good ol' Stu...

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by Anonymousreply 2October 31, 2023 12:57 AM

He seemed gay, to me.

by Anonymousreply 3October 31, 2023 12:59 AM

Was Stu able to withstand the charms of McDowall's roddy during "Shock's" shooting?

by Anonymousreply 4October 31, 2023 1:21 AM

I don't like westerns...but...I did watch Cimarron Strip.

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by Anonymousreply 5October 31, 2023 1:26 AM

This is such a fun movie and would make a great double bill with Samuel Fuller's SHOCK CORRIDOR, another b/w movie of the same vintage set in an insane asylum.

by Anonymousreply 6October 31, 2023 2:24 AM

Reply 6, Yes, Shock Corridor came out the previous year with a similar premise, and was even more whackadoodle!

by Anonymousreply 7October 31, 2023 12:39 PM

I adore Roddy! Now I have to see this.

by Anonymousreply 8October 31, 2023 12:46 PM

Here's a HD 1080p version of "Shock Treatment" I just found on YouTube. Happy Halloween!

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by Anonymousreply 9October 31, 2023 12:53 PM

Stu & the Baroness

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by Anonymousreply 10October 31, 2023 8:15 PM
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