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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.
LIBRA DVD 022 495
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Lindner, Robert Mitchell, 1914-1956. Fifty-minute hour, author.
- 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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