Pressure Point
The boiling point of two men who mutinied against the world and each other!
- 1962
- Rated NR
- 1h 29m
- Drama
Rating: 6.6 out of 10TMDB(45 votes)
Overview
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
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Music
Music by Ernest Gold
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Ernest Haller
Details
- Director
- Writers
- S. Lee PogostinScreenplay
- Hubert CornfieldScreenplay
- Robert LindnerOriginal Story
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 10, 1962
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Sidney PoitierDoctor
Bobby DarinPatient
Peter FalkYoung Psychiatrist
Carl Benton ReidChief Medical Officer
Mary MundayBar Hostess
Howard CaineTavern Owner
Gilbert GreenJewish Father
Barry GordonPatient (as a boy)
Richard BakalyanJimmy
Lynn LoringJewish Girl- Anne BartonMother
James AndersonFather- Benjie Bancroft
- Bud Cokes
Jimmie HoranPatient
Clegg HoytPete
Frank MaxwellBund Meeting Spectator
William H. O'BrienBund Meeting Spectator
Butch PatrickImaginary Playmate
Yvette VickersDrunken Woman
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