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Essentially a conformist psychological melodrama, pressure point. The film was produced by stanley kramer and kramer was noted for. Pressure point unfolds when a young psychiatrist peter falk, tv s columbo, exasperated by his failed attempts to help a black patient who hates whites asks to be reassigned. Pressure point 1962 was directed by hubert cornfield and starred sidney poitier and bobby darin. Pressure point 1962 the name of hubert cornfield 19292006 does not loom large over hollywood. An africanamerican prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted nazi tendencies. Pressure point 1962 is a drama movie starring sidney poitier and bobby darin. A doctor poitier in a psychiatric institution is asked to reassign a patient to a. Pressure point original movie still 8x10 bobby darin, drama 1962 262 pressure point original. Frustrated by his inability to help an africanamerican patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist peter falk asks his superior sidney poitier to release him from the case. Wikimedia commons has media related to films of the united states, 1962. In a story told in flashback, his seasoned superior sidney poitier, guess who s coming to dinner recounts his own experience during the war when he treated a nazi youth.
Pressure point 1962 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Pressure point 1962 pressure point unfolds when a young psychiatrist peter falk, tvs columbo. Pressure point is a 1962 psychological drama film about a prison psychiatrist who is called upon to treat a nazi. Pressure point the boiling point of two men who mutinied against the world and each other. The movie opens with sidney poitier playing the chief psychiatrist at a clinic. Knudtson, stanley kramer, hubert cornfield, robert m. Pressure point, bluray, dramaclassics, 887090116602. Sidney poitier, bobby darin, peter falk, imdb rating. Now 2016 a lot of israel particularly judah need to hear the truth from esau red man. Pressure point, starring sidney poitier and bobby darin practically burned a hole in movie screens in 1962, a year in which a handful of films were pushing many envelopes that had never been pushed, and none of them pushed the envelope harder and further than pressure point. In a 20year career from 1955 to 1975, he directed only a dozen films and tv episodes.
Pressure point the 1962 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. Read the full synopsis of pressure point, 1962, directed by hubert cornfield, with sidney poitier, bobby darin, peter falk, at turner classic movies. One of the pioneering films of the early sixties, allowing for more freedom of the screen in terms of both subject matter and style, still waits to be rediscovered. Pressure point 1962 title sequence the movie title. Pressure point is a 1962 american film directed by hubert cornfield and starring sidney poitier and bobby darin.
Born in 1929 in istanbul to a fox movie executive father, he was raised in france. Pressure point 1962 hubert cornfield cast and crew. Your main character is a psychiatrist played by poitier. This was bobby darins fourth film and perhaps the best in his brief career. Updates pressure point 1962 pressure point 1962 title sequence typography the end trailer title. Find movie and film cast and crew information for pressure point 1962 hubert cornfield on allmovie. Pressure point 1962 posted on november 1, 2017 by bea. An africanamerican 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. Sidney poitier, bobby darin, peter falk, carl benton reid, mary munday. It is the early 1960s and peter falk comes to his boss asking to be released from a case. Pressure point 1962 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Pressure point is a 1962 movie directed by lynn stalmaster, ernest haller. Director, stanley kramers second collaboration with sidney poitier sees the actor play a prison psychiatrist who is assigned the case of a paranoid and bigoted inmate who has a troubled past.
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