Pressure Point

1962
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1h 31m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

2.2K

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Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin in Pressure Point (1962)

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A Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.A Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.A Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

2.2K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

Father
(uncredited)

Benjie Bancroft

Bund Meeting Spectator
(uncredited)

Bud Cokes

Inmate
(uncredited)

Duke Fishman

Inmate
(uncredited)

Leonard Geiger

Lars Hensen

Bund Meeting Spectator
(uncredited)

Jimmie Horan

Patient
(uncredited)

Director
- Hubert Cornfield
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Trivia
Producer Stanley Kramer directed the framing story, which refers to the present-day story that Sidney Poitier tells to Peter Falk.

Goofs
The calendar visible on the wall of the Doctor's office in 1942 is not correct for that year. (It would be correct for 1962.)

Quotes
Doctor: [angrily to the Patient] This is my country! This is where I've done what I've done, and if there were a million cruds like you, all sick like you are sick, all shouting, 'Down, destroy, degrade,' and if there were 20 million more sick enough to listen to them, you are still gonna lose! You're gonna lose, Mister, because there is something in this country, something so big, so strong that you don't even know... something big enough to take it from people like you and come back and nail you into the ground. You're walking out of here? You are going nowhere! Now get out!

Soundtracks
Here Comes the Bride
("The Bridal Chorus") (uncredited)
Composed by Richard Wagner (1850)
Sung at bund meeting

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Featured review

some really surreal moments

I wish that Hubert Cornfield, this film's director, had directed more films. I have seen this one and three others ("Plunder Road", "Lure of the Swamp" and "Night of the Following Day") and they all bear the stamp of a unique and very idiosyncratic vision. The flashback scenes of Bobby Darin's character in this film are truly unique and often quite disturbing, recalling Bunuel and Cocteau in their oneiric intensity. Definitely worth checking out if you are into offbeat and skewed cinema.