Saturday, April 2, 2011  Corridors of Blood (1959) - #368  Pain
and the knife are inseparable.  Even though Corridors of
Blood wasn't officially released until 1962, and despite its
official copyright date of 1958, I'm bending my rules a bit here
by pairing it up with the film it was originally intended to
serve as the headliner in a double feature, 1959's First Man
Into Space. In that respect, Corridors of Blood shares a
connection with Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible Part II,
which I also wrote about in my timeline prior to the date of its
actual public issuance. Thus, this blog may be the only instance
in human history that those two films are ever linked together,
though their common themes of a gifted individual with grandiose
intentions succumbing to madness and delirium instead may lend a
certain resonance to the connection after all. And if we add the
negative impact that a meddling, censorious bureaucratic
infrastructure had on each film's destiny into the mix, there
may be enough material wort