Shock (1946)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Load of rubbish!!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Jenny (Anabel Shaw) is in a hotel waiting to see her husband Paul (Frank Latimore) who she hasn't seen in two years, not knowing if he was alive or dead, apparently a WWII thing. While waiting she sees Vincent Price strike and kill his wife in another room...and Jenny goes into some kind of catatonic shock...which lost me right here. As things turn out, Vincent Price is a doctor and ends up treating her.Interesting film of an era when doctors smoked and there was a one to one nurse-patient ratio as we hear said, "How is your patient doing?" Nothing much to see here. Young Vincent Price who was less commanding in his presence.Available on 50 DVD Mill Creek packs with poorly restored sound.

I really enjoyed this one,, sure it doesn't have a lot of the guts and blood or scare tactics as most of the Vincent Price movies, but I felt like this particular movie didn't really need that,, a woman waiting at a hotel for her husband to come home form WW2 , get's the news that her husband is delayed but will be home soon,, so right before she goes to bed she walks to the window and witnesses something horrific ,, a man choking a woman to death.. from this point on she is rather useless, she goes into shock,, a catatonic state,, a Dr. is called in to help her and low and behold it's the same man at the window who killed the woman,, when the woman finally does wake up she tries to put out to different people that the good Dr. is the killer but no one really seems to pay her much mind,, very good movie a must see.

Anxious Janet Stewart (Annabel Shaw), waiting on the return of her POW husband, sees Vincent Price kill his wife. This shock, on top of her already nervous state, proves too much for the poor woman. When her husband arrives, he finds her in a catatonic state. A psychiatrist is called to examine her and, lo and behold, it's Vincent Price! It doesn't take Price long to figure out what happened and suggest she be admitted to his sanitarium for treatment. There, he and his mistress Nurse Elaine Jordan (the always sexy Lynn Bari) conspire to keep the woman from talking.Enjoyable 'B' suspenser with a decent cast. It's only slightly over an hour long so no excuses not to check it out. It does drag some but not as much as other reviews seem to indicate. My favorite scene in the film has little to do with the main plot. There's a lightning storm and it's upsetting one of the mental patients, so he breaks out of his room. Elaine finds him hovering over Janet's bed and he attacks Elaine! This entire sequence was well-directed, with great use of shadow and the lightning to create tension. Perhaps if they had more than 20 days to shoot the film, they could've had more scenes like this and the movie would be better remembered today.

*Spoiler/plot- 1946, Shock, A psychologically distraught woman, while waiting for her WW2 flier prisoner of war husband from the Pacific is committed to a private sanitarium for a nervous break down. The same Doctor commits a violent murder of his wife from an apartments patio when she collapses.*Special Stars- Vincent Price as lead.*Theme- Be careful of your neighbors.*Based on- 40's pulp fiction paperbacks *Trivia/location/goofs- Psychological horror drama *Emotion- A somewhat forgettable film except for the very capable acting Vincent Price. Plot improbabilities and lack of decent film finish make this film very weak.