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Pressure Point (1962)

Pressure Point poster
Directed by
Hubert Cornfield
Genre
drama film, prison film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A prison psychiatrist tries to treat a man who is a Nazi sympathizer locked up during World War Two. The psychiatrist battles with the patient's hateful beliefs and his own duties.

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What happens

Pressure Point is a 1962 American psychological drama film directed and co-written by Hubert Cornfield. It stars Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin, about a prison psychiatrist treating an American Nazi sympathizer during World War II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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