Samuel Fuller's 'Shock Corridor' arrived in mad times

'Shock Corridor,' about a journalist who fakes his way into a mental institution, arrived 50 years ago, a nightmare vision in the tumult of fall 1963.Not a guy to mince words, two-fisted writer-director Samuel Fuller began (and ended) his tabloid classic "Shock Corridor" with a spurious quote from Euripides: "Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad." But he might just have well taken his epigraph from Allen Ginsberg's "Howl": "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, sta...