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Pressure Point is a 1962 American psychological drama film directed and co-written by Hubert Cornfield. It stars Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin, about a prison psychiatrist treating an American Nazi sympathizer during World War II.
Pressure Point: Directed by Hubert Cornfield. With Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid. A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.
Pressure Point. Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist (Peter Falk) asks his superior (Sidney Poitier) to release him from the case....
- Drama
When Darin's antagonistic, scornfully contemptuous inmate is sent to Poitier and only agrees to be treated as a means of purging the nightmares that keep him from sleeping, it doesn't take long for the doc to identify daddy issues as the cause of the prisoner's unease.
During the turbulent Civil Rights era of the early 1960s, a young white psychiatrist becomes discouraged with his inability to reach a disaffected, institutionalized young black man.
Aug 10, 2016 · Pressure Point (1962) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056370 Pressure Point unfolds when a young psychiatrist (Peter Falk, TV’s Columbo), exasperated by his failed attempts to help a...
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
