Pressure Point

Name: Pressure Point
Genre: Drama
Released: 1962
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 6.535

1962 · 89 min

Drama

★ 6.5

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Trailer

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

Crew

Director Hubert Cornfield
Screenplay S. Lee Pogostin
Screenplay Hubert Cornfield
Director of Photography Ernest Haller

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
Screenplay — Hubert Cornfield
Director of Photography — Ernest Haller

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