Pressure Point
The boiling point of two men who mutinied against the world and each other!
1962 | 89m | English
Popularity: 0.7 (history)
| Director: | Hubert Cornfield |
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| Writer: | Hubert Cornfield, S. Lee Pogostin, Robert Lindner |
| Staring: |
| An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 10, 1962 |
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| Director: | Hubert Cornfield |
| Writer: | Hubert Cornfield, S. Lee Pogostin, Robert Lindner |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | prison, fascism, nightmare, insomnia, flashback, antisemitism, racism, psychiatrist, told in flashback, nazi collaborationism, 1940s, black doctor, psychiatric treatment, sedition, american-nazi, anti-blackness, black american |
| Production Companies | Stanley Kramer Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 28, 2026 Entered: Apr 15, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Sidney Poitier | Doctor |
| Bobby Darin | Patient |
| Peter Falk | Young Psychiatrist |
| Carl Benton Reid | Chief Medical Officer |
| Mary Munday | Bar Hostess |
| Howard Caine | Tavern Owner |
| Gilbert Green | Jewish Father |
| Barry Gordon | Patient (as a boy) |
| Richard Bakalyan | Jimmy |
| Lynn Loring | Jewish Girl |
| Anne Barton | Mother |
| James Anderson | Father |
| Benjie Bancroft | |
| Bud Cokes | |
| Jimmie Horan | Patient |
| Clegg Hoyt | Pete |
| Frank Maxwell | Bund Meeting Spectator |
| William H. O'Brien | Bund Meeting Spectator |
| Butch Patrick | Imaginary Playmate |
| Yvette Vickers | Drunken Woman |
| Duke Fishman | |
| Lars Hensen | |
| Michael Jeffers | |
| Ethan Laidlaw | |
| Tiger Joe Marsh | Inmate (uncredited) |
| Clyde McLeod | |
| Mike Morelli | |
| George Murdock | |
| Gil Perkins | |
| Jack Perrin | |
| Herman Rudin | |
| Phil Schumacher | |
| Max Wagner | |
| Chalky Williams | |
| Harry Wilson |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Hubert Cornfield | Editor, Screenplay, Director |
| Rudolph Sternad | Production Design |
| George Milo | Set Decoration |
| Phil Bowles | Assistant Director |
| Jean L. Speak | Sound Engineer |
| Art Dunham | Music Editor |
| Marshall Schlom | Script Supervisor |
| Joe King | Costumer |
| Don L. Carstensen | Gaffer |
| Frederic Knudtson | Editor |
| S. Lee Pogostin | Screenplay |
| George C. Webb | Art Direction |
| George Lane | Makeup Artist |
| Nate H. Edwards | Production Manager |
| Walter Elliott | Sound Editor |
| Morris Rosen | Grip |
| Art Cole | Property Master |
| Sam Van Zenten | Assistant Grip |
| Robert Lindner | Original Story |
| Ernest Haller | Director of Photography |
| Lynn Stalmaster | Casting |
| Ernest Gold | Original Music Composer |
| Conrad L. Hall | Camera Operator |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Stanley Kramer | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 3 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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