The film tells the story of a psychiatrist, Dr. Cross (Vincent Price), who is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw), who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. It also stars Lynn Bari as Dr. Cross’s nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan.
As Stewart comes out of her shock, she recognizes Dr. Cross as the killer. He then takes her to his sanitarium and at Elaine’s urging, gives Janet an overdose of insulin under the pretense of administering insulin shock therapy. He can’t bring himself to murder her in cold blood, though, and asks Elaine to get the medicine to save her. Elaine refuses, they argue, and he strangles her. A colleague of Dr. Cross, Dr. Harvey, saves Janet’s life and Dr. Cross is taken into custody by a lawyer from the District Attorney’s office.
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Directed by Alfred L. Werker, produced by Aubrey Schenck, written by Eugene Ling (screenplay), Albert DeMond (story) and Martin Berkeley (dialogue), starring Vincent Price as Dr. Richard Cross, Lynn Bari as Elaine Jordan, Frank Latimore as Lt. Paul Stewart, Anabel Shaw as Janet Stewart, Stephen Dunne as Dr. Stevens, Reed Hadley as O’Neill, Renee Carson as Mrs. Hatfield and Charles Trowbridge as Dr. Franklin Harvey.
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Source: “Shock (1946 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 7 March 2013. Web. 17 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_(1946_film).
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silly thing to drive her nuts. she would never make it thru most public schools these days.
I wonder if Vincent Price was secretly gay… he sure seems it.
Another moron who can't distinguish her own projections from acting.
In the 'Good Old Days' of Hollywood, they kept things like that a secret.. Remember ROCK HUDSON?
who was the grip on this one??? the credits don't say. Unbelievable oversight
thank you for sharing 🙂
Good movie!!!!
A classic film I remember watching when I was a teen.
http://www.alluc.com/stream/Shock+%281946%29
Not exactly Vincent's best.
@Debra Sparks: Vincent Price was married three times, had one child each by the first two wives, had an affair with actress Anna May Wong in the '30s, and dated Deanna Durbin in the '40s. According to the 2012 book Full Service, written by Scotty Bowers, who procured suitable "partners" for those in the Hollywood community for over 40 years, Bowers (straight but gay-for-pay) dallied with Price, and said he found young women for Price's third wife, Coral Browne, claiming Browne was a "dyke", but that despite not having a sex life with each other, Price and Browne did care deeply about one another, so more than likely, Price was bisexual.
Love Vincent!!! This was a nice short movie.
OMG He was such a crazy! Classic.
It was Vincent price with a candlestick.
I am unclear how epi could reverse the hypoglycemia but whatever. Also never knew scopalamine was a truth serum. Interesting.
well I really enjoyed this movie. Vincent Price at his best! ☺
cool movie love some vincent price
Thank you–a fun hour and ten minutes spent
Very strange that there was never any mention about his wife being murdered, no police, no court trial, etc.
I want name af white and black horror films, please
film is old I know–but so dark
The film was just ok. But too much time was spent what to do or not do with the patient– drawn out a bit.
It was an excellent film except for the pretext at the beginning. What the woman saw would never have really induced shock to begin with.
Nice to see a young Vincent Price. One of the best dramatic actors of all time. I liked him best in "The House on Haunted Hill."
there's another video of this on youtube that's much higher qualility
Sheezus, my parents were married in 1946. See you all at the Cemetery, in line for a plot.
Vincent price was tall
Such A Swell Movie