Sidney Poitier
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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.
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- Drama
- Hubert Cornfield
- 1963-07-11
Pressure Point (1962) Pressure Point (1962) Pressure Point (1962) Pressure Point (1962) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who ...
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- Hubert Cornfield
- Drama
- Sidney Poitier
Born in 1929 in Istanbul to a Fox movie executive father, he was raised in France, where he returned for three final projects after his Hollywood career crashed in 1968 on the French location of the kidnap film, The Night of the Following Day, due to arguments with the star Marlon Brando. (Richard Boone, who played the psychotic member of the ...
- Hubert Cornfield, Phil Bowles, Douglas Green
- Sidney Poitier
A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition. An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies. — Anonymous.
Pressure Point. (1962) Directed by Hubert Cornfield. Sidney Poitier portrays a prison psychiatrist treating an inmate (Bobby Darin) whose sociopathic violence was animated by childhood traumas and expressed through Nazi sympathies. His medical judgment ultimately distrusted by his peers because of his race, he nonetheless persists in his ...
Essentially a conformist psychological melodrama, Pressure Point truly comes to life whenever Bobby Darin is on the screen. His performance was outstanding, far better than his Oscar-nominated turn in 1963's Captain Newman MD.
