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starring: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid, Mary Munday directed by: Hubert Cornfield See Larger Image Used Price: $3.17 Third Party New Price: $3.20 Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 9780792859222 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792859227 Label: MGM Manufacturer: MGM Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 20, 2004 Running Time: 89 minutes Sales Rank: 18396 Studio: MGM Theatrical Release Date: 1962 Related Items: Brother John The Defiant Ones A Patch of Blue The Wilby Conspiracy The Organization see more Editorial Review: Description: OscarÂ(r) winner* Sidney Poitier sizzles in an electrifying role (Show Business Illustrated) as a prison psychiatrist who clashes with a racist inmate (Bobby Darin) in this explosive and provocative (Citizen News) drama that packs a powerful wallop (LA Herald Examiner)! A prison doctor is charged with treating a hate-filled young man who's been jailed for sedition. As he probes the patient's nightmares, the psychiatrist realizes his twisted visions mask a lust for violence. But the inmate has become a model prisoner, and unless the doctor can convince officials that he's dangerous, he'll soon be back on the street. *1963: Actor, Lilies of the Field; 2001: Honorary Award Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A TRIP INTO THE MIND OF A PSYCHOPATH! I had heard many good things about this "explosive and provocative drama", so I decided to check this film out. While the performances are very good and story is interesting, this film about racism and psychological analysis is a bit dated. The artsy camerawork was probably something in it's day, but I found myself getting bored with some of the stagey tactics and monotonous screenplay. The DVD has a good transfer, but I found the audio to have a low bass flutter, making the voices a chore to hear.......this ... Read More Rating: - Lost Classic's Handling of Racism is Sadly Still Relevant Today Bobby Darin holds his own against the great Sidney Poitier in an intense psychological duel between a black prison psychiatrist and a charismatic, white supremacist patient angling for parole. Even as he helps Darin conquer his personal demons, Poitier realizes that his patient remains an unrepentant threat to society. Worse, he finds that Darin has fooled the rest of the staff into believing he has reformed. Darin cunningly taunts Poitier by explaining how easily the visceral appeal of his "cause" is spread ... Read More Rating: - A Well-Shrunken Head This is a truly excellent & powerful film that portrays the tense therapeutic relationship between a prison psychiatrist (Poitier) and a self-exalted American Nazi upstart (Darrin). Although incarcerated for sedition, Darrin's real imprisonment is within his own mind and persecutory complexes. and he suffers agonizing panic attacks, which results in his having to submit to therapy at the hands of someone he considers his inferior. He learns that his terrors are really the eruption of PTSD symptoms, and that ... Read More Rating: - Overheated Melodrama Deals with the Paranoid Delusions of a Truly Hateful Convict Although the genesis of hate crimes is worthy of a film treatment, this heavy-handed 1962 melodrama is weighed down by too many theatrical flourishes to be as genuinely powerful as was once intended. Some critics at the time praised the bravery of such an undertaking, but one can see in hindsight how director Hubert Cornfield, who co-wrote the screenplay with Robert Lindner, doesn't seem to trust the basic material enough to provide a more straightforward telling of the case history of a psychopathic convict who ... Read More Rating: - Forgotten Powerful Film I saw this film in the 1970s and was totally drawn into the psycho-drama of its storyline. A recent viewing took nothing away from its strange power. Bobby Darin's excellent performance gives evidence to the unrealized potential of a long movie career. In my recent viewing, Darin's character reminded me of Lee Harvey Oswald. "Pressure Point" is told in a very unsensational manner which adds to its power. This manner lends added potency to the film's very disturbing bar scene, where Darin's character and a buddy matter ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - General By Theme - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Doctors & Patients By Theme - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Haunted by the Past By Theme - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Melodrama By Theme - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Psychological Drama