Pressure Point

(1962)

Drama

91 minutes

Directed by Hubert Cornfield

Cast:

Sidney Poitier as Doctor 
Bobby Darin as Patient
Peter Falk as Young psychiatrist
Carl Benton Reid as Chief medical officer
Mary Munday as Bar hostess
Barry Gordon as Boy patient
Howard Caine as Tavern owner
Gilbert Green as Jewish father
Anne Barton as Mother
James Anderson as Father
Richard Bakalyan as Jimmy
Lynn Loring as Jewish girl
Yvette Vickers as Drunken woman

 
An African American prison psychiatrist is severely tested in his career when he must treat a troubled prisoner who is prejudiced and has Nazi beliefs. 

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