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Information
- Year
- 1962
- Runtime
- 91 min.
- Director
- Hubert Cornfield
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 7.1
- Votes *
- 781
- Checks
- 116
- Favs
- 5
- Dislikes
- 2
- Favs/checks
- 4.3% (1:23)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Its poster evoking another Stanley Kramer production starring Sidney Poitier (The Defiant Ones), Pressure Point really isn't anything like what the image suggests. Poitier plays a prison psychologist trying to help a white supremacist (Bobby Darin) get a better night's sleep, but obviously meets with some resistance. Set in the 40s, with a 60s frame tale as if to say "look at how far we've come", the question is whether "we" in this scenario is society or white supremacy. Darin's speeches are terrifying because though you can't, with a right mind, embrace his ideology, his predictions could well be correct. By 2021, we have perhaps even more of a sense that they are. Pressure Point has some great cinematography, with surreal ideas in terms of the patient's flashbacks, taking the pressure (heh) off the fact that it is necessarily a talky film. The two leads are excellent. The frame tale does seem a little clunky to me, and kind of makes me want to see a whole movie about Peter Falk dealing with HIS patient (but not the solution he mentions half-jokingly at the end, please, yeesh). 3 years 4 months ago