In his first starring role, Vincent Price plays Dr. Cross, a prominent psychiatrist who, along with his nurse/mistress (Bari), murders his wife. The slaying is witnessed by Janet Stewart (Shaw), a woman who is already in a nervous state because her husband Paul (Latimore) is returning home
after being held in a Japanese POW camp. When Paul finally arrives home, Janet attempts to tell him what she has seen, but Dr. Cross is able to convince Paul that what his wife really needs is some good psychiatric care at the local sanitarium. An occasionally creepy thriller, SHOCK was directed
in a workmanlike fashion by veteran Alfred Werker, whose best film, HE WALKED BY NIGH...
Released:
1946
Rated:
NR
Length:
70 mins