How long is Pressure Point?

Pressure Point is 1 hr 31 min long.

Who is Doctor in Pressure Point?

Sidney Poitier plays Doctor in the film.

Pressure Point

Name: Pressure Point
Duration: 91
Rating: 76

Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist (Peter Falk) asks his superior (Sidney Poitier) to release him from the case. The superior relates a case from his own past during World War II when he treated a young Nazi (Bobby Darin) who despised blacks. Explaining the tragic results of the case, the older psychiatrist encourages his younger colleague not to be swayed by the patient's attitude, to remain objective and to stick with his treatment.

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How long is Pressure Point?: Pressure Point is 1 hr 31 min long.

Who directed Pressure Point?: Hubert Cornfield

Who is Doctor in Pressure Point?: Sidney Poitier plays Doctor in the film.

What is Pressure Point about?: Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist (Peter Falk) asks his superior (Sidney Poitier) to release him from the case. The superior relates a case from his own past during World War II when he treated a young Nazi (Bobby Darin) who despised blacks. Explaining the tragic results of the case, the older psychiatrist encourages his younger colleague not to be swayed by the patient's attitude, to remain objective and to stick with his treatment.