Pressure Point (1962)
6.6|10 Oct, 1962|89 min
The boiling point of two men who mutinied against the world and each other!
6.6|10 Oct, 1962|89 min
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An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Keywords
prison
nightmare
fascism
insomnia
flashback
antisemitism
racism
psychiatrist
told in flashback
nazi collaborationism
1940s
black doctor
psychiatric treatment
sedition
american-nazi
anti-blackness
black american
Casts
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
Anne Barton
Mother
James Anderson
Father
Benjie Bancroft
Bud Cokes
Jimmie Horan
Patient
Clegg Hoyt
Pete
Frank Maxwell
Bund Meeting Spectator
William H. O'Brien
Bund Meeting Spectator
Butch Patrick
Imaginary Playmate
Yvette Vickers
Drunken Woman
Duke Fishman
Lars Hensen
Michael Jeffers
Ethan Laidlaw
Tiger Joe Marsh
Clyde McLeod
Mike Morelli
George Murdock
Gil Perkins
Jack Perrin
Herman Rudin
Phil Schumacher
Max Wagner
Chalky Williams
Harry Wilson
Crews
Hubert Cornfield
Director
S. Lee Pogostin
Screenplay
Ernest Gold
Original Music Composer
Hubert Cornfield
Editor
Phil Bowles
Assistant Director
George Lane
Makeup Artist
George C. Webb
Art Direction
George Milo
Set Decoration
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting
Stanley Kramer
Producer
Frederic Knudtson
Editor
Ernest Haller
Director of Photography
Rudolph Sternad
Production Design
Hubert Cornfield
Screenplay
Conrad L. Hall
Camera Operator
Art Cole
Property Master
Sam Van Zenten
Assistant Grip
Joe King
Costumer
Jean L. Speak
Sound Engineer
Morris Rosen
Grip
Marshall Schlom
Script Supervisor
Nate H. Edwards
Production Manager
Robert Lindner
Original Story
Walter Elliott
Sound Editor
Art Dunham
Music Editor
Don L. Carstensen
Gaffer
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