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Pressure Point(1962)
USA, B&W, Drama, Running Time 91 minutes
Release Date: September 19,1962
Produced by Stanley Kramer
Directed by Hubert Cornfield
Screenplay by Hubert Cornfield and S. Lee Pogostin
Based On a story By Robert Lindner
Studio: United Artists
Cast:
Doctor Sidney Poitier
Patient Bobby Darin
Psychiatrist Peter Falk
Chief Medical Officer Carl Benton Reid
Bar Hostess Mary Munday
Tavern Owner Howard Caine
Boy Patient Barry Gordon
Jimmy Richard Bakalyan
Mother Anne Barton
Father James Anderson
Jewish Girl Lynn Loring
Drunken Woman Yvette Vickers
The story
A young white Psychiatrist enters his bosses office to complain about his patient one more time. It deals with the fact that he has given up and pleads with the black Doctor to remove him from the case because his young black patient is so full of hatred for him. He cannot reach a point of contact with the boy because of it. He has been on the case for 7 and half months but is ready to quit. The Doctor says he quit his prison Psychiatrist job in a Federal prison 20 years ago for the same reasons. It was the first really good job he ever had." I do understand how you feel..."he says.
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