Pressure Point

  • Drama
10/10/1962
89
NR

The boiling point of two men who mutinied against the world and each other!

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.

Director:
Hubert Cornfield
Writers:
S. Lee Pogostin
Hubert Cornfield
    • prison
    • nightmare
    • fascism
    • insomnia
    • flashback
    • antisemitism
    • racism
    • psychiatrist
    • told in flashback
    • nazi collaborationism
    • 1940s
    • black doctor
    • psychiatric treatment
    • sedition
    • american-nazi
    • anti-blackness
    • black american

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    Cast

    • Sidney Poitier
      Doctor
    • Bobby Darin
      Patient
    • Peter Falk
      Young Psychiatrist
    • Carl Benton Reid
      Chief Medical Officer
    • Mary Munday
      Bar Hostess
    • Howard Caine
      Tavern Owner
    • Gilbert Green
      Jewish Father
    • Barry Gordon
      Patient (as a boy)
    • Richard Bakalyan
      Jimmy
    • Lynn Loring
      Jewish Girl
    • Anne Barton
      Mother
    • James Anderson
      Father
    • Benjie Bancroft
      Acting
    • Bud Cokes
      Acting
    • Jimmie Horan
      Patient
    • Clegg Hoyt
      Pete

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