The Slender Thread (1965)

Directors

Sydney Pollack

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Edward Asner, Indus Arthur, Paul Newlan, Dabney Coleman, H.N. Wynant, Robert F. Hoy, Greg Jarvis

The story

Early one evening, psychology student Alan Newell (Sidney Poitier) rushes from the university to his shift as a volunteer telephone attendant at Seattle's then-new Crisis Clinic. As he drives past the Ballard Bridge, he doesn't notice the car being driven erratically in the opposite lane by a woman (Anne Bancroft) with whose path his will cross later on. As Alan arrives at the clinic, Dr.

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