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Pressure point / Stanley Kramer presents ; a United Artists release ; screenplay by Hubert Cornfield & S. Lee Pogostin ; produced by Stanley Kramer ; directed by Hubert Cornfield.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Lindner, Robert Mitchell, 1914-1956. Fifty-minute hour, author.
Contributor:
Kramer, Stanley, producer.
Cornfield, Hubert, 1929-2006, adapter, screenwriter, producer.
Pogostin, S. Lee, adapter, screenwriter.
Poitier, Sidney, actor.
Darin, Bobby, actor.
Falk, Peter, 1927-2011, actor.
Reid, Carl Benton, 1893-1973, actor.
Gold, Ernest, 1921-1999, composer.
United Artists Corporation, producer.
MGM Home Entertainment Inc., distributor.
Series:
MGM DVD
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Lindner, Robert Mitchell, 1914-1956--Film adaptations.
Lindner, Robert Mitchell.
Lindner, Robert Mitchell, 1914-1956.
Racism--Drama.
Racism.
Psychiatrists--Drama.
Psychiatrists.
Recidivism.
Recidivism--Drama.
Genre:
Drama.
Prison films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
monochrome
Edition:
Widescreen.
Place of Publication:
Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, 2004.
Language Note:
In English; optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
Closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.
System Details:
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital mono.
digital
optical
mono
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
"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 vision mask a lust for violence. But the inmate has become a model prisoner, and unless the doctor can convince officials that he's daugerous, he'll soon be back on the street"--Container.
Participant:
Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid.
Credits:
Director of photography, Ernest Haller; editor, Frederic Knudtson; music, Ernest Gold.
Notes:
Based on a novel, The fifty-minute hour / by Robert Lindner.
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1962.
Special features: audio commentary by director Hubert Cornfield; original theatrical trailer.
Aspect ratio 1.66:1.
ISBN:
0792859227
9780792859222
OCLC:
54756168
Publisher Number:
1005914 MGM Home Entertainment

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