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Pressure Point (1962)

Pressure Point (1962)

Drama

The boiling point of two men who mutinied against the world and each other!

Release Date: 1962, October 10
Directors: Hubert Cornfield
Countries: United States of America
Production: Stanley Kramer Productions, Stanley Kramer Productions, Stanley Kramer Productions
Cast: Peter Falk, Yvette Vickers, William H. O'Brien, Richard Bakalyan, Tiger Joe Marsh, Sidney Poitier, James Anderson, Jimmie Horan, Carl Benton Reid, Clegg Hoyt, Howard Caine, Mary Munday

Overview:

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:

1940s flashback racism fascism prison nightmare insomnia told in flashback antisemitism psychiatrist psychiatric treatment black american nazi collaborationism black doctor anti-blackness american-nazi sedition