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DVD Release Date: January 15, 2005 (out of print)

Director: Hubert Cornfield

Principal Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin and Peter Falk

Description
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An intense psychological drama built around a flashback that's based on a true case from Dr. Robert Lindner's "Fifty-Minute Hour". The film purposely uses no names in an effort to emphasize the roles one plays symbolically in society such as doctor and patient, father and son, or black and white man. It tells what happens when someone unstable gets pushed to the pressure point.

Pressure Point opens as psychiatrist Peter Falk complains to the hospital's gray-haired Negro chief psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) that he can't get through to his hostile Negro patient because he hates whites and that he should be replaced with one of the two Negro psychiatrists on the staff. This prompts the chief to relate a case that was similar back in 1942, when he worked as a young prison psychiatrist during the war in a federal penitentiary and was forced to treat a white racist and Nazi sympathizer (Bobby Darin) held on sedition charges.  

The heart of the film has Poitier dealing with the hostile patient's sleep disorder and blackouts and discovers a history as an abusive child at the hands of his butcher father, who rejected his boy and was the reason his hatred mushroomed.



Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 3.77 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 91 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Sound (main feature): English DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English | Spanish | French



DISC FEATURES:

# Audio Commentary by Director Hubert Cornfield.
# Original Theatrical Trailer.



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