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Pressure Point (1962)
Directed by Hubert Cornfield
“The boiling point of two men who mutinied against the world and each other!”
Drama · 1h 29m
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
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
A
Anne Barton
Mother
James Anderson
Father
Crew
- Director
- Hubert Cornfield
- Screenplay
- S. Lee Pogostin, Hubert Cornfield
- Director of Photography
- Ernest Haller
- Original Music Composer
- Ernest Gold
- Editor
- Hubert Cornfield, Frederic Knudtson
- Producer
- Stanley Kramer
Details
- Release date
- 1962-10-10
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Stanley Kramer Productions