Pressure Point (1962)

Directors

Hubert Cornfield, Stanley Kramer

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Richard Bakalyan, Anne Barton, James Anderson, Howard Caine, Gilbert Green, Lynn Loring, Mary Munday

The story

The film begins at a psychiatric institution in 1962. A young doctor (Peter Falk) on a staff headed by a senior psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) is frustrated with his patient, who is black and detests him because he is white. The doctor has been trying for a breakthrough for 7 1/2 months and feels he cannot go on; he demands that his patient be assigned to another psychiatrist.

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