THE MOVING PICTURE BOY ARCHIVE

PRESSURE POINT

Title: Pressure Point
Year of release: 1962
Director: Hubert Cornfield
Screenwriters: Hubert Cornfield and S. Lee Pogostin
Country of Production: USA
Genre: Psychological drama
Length: 1 hour, 29 minutes
Language: English
Availability: A blu-ray was released by Olive Films (caps from blu-ray below)
Principal boy: Barry Gordon (below, left; later to be famous for his role as Nick in A Thousand Clowns [1965]) plays the Patient as a Boy. Butch Patrick (below, right) has an uncredited role as the Patient's imaginery childhood playmate. A few other boys, also uncredited, appear as members of the Barry Gordon's anarchic childhood 'gang'.

Synopsis (from sleeve of Olive Films blu-ray release)
"Pressure Point unfolds when a young psychiatrist (Peter Falk, TV's Columbo), exasperated by his failed attempts to help a black patient who hates whites, asks to be reassigned. In a story told in flashback, his seasoned superior (Sidney Poitier, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner) recounts his own experience during the war when he treated a Nazi youth (Bobby Darin, Too Late Blues) who hated blacks."

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