Drama

Crime

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No Way Out

20th Century Fox

United States of America

English

Richard Widmark

Linda Darnell

Sidney Poitier

Stephen McNally

Mildred Joanne Smith

Harry Bellaver

Stanley Ridges

Dots Johnson

Robert Adler

Ernest Anderson

Jessie Arnold

Eleanor Audley

Polly Bailey

Betsy Blair

Eileen Boyer

Harry Carter

Ken Christy

Charles J. Conrad

Jack Daley

Ossie Davis

Ruby Dee

Wade Dumas

Ralph Dunn

Elzie Emanuel

Francine Everett

Charles Ferguson

Bert Freed

Alyce Goering

Fred Graham

Joe Hartman

Gil Herman

Don Hicks

Ralph Hodges

Ray Hyke

Thomas Ingersoll

Johnnie Jallings

Berneice Janssen

Frank Jaquet

J. Louis Johnson

Stan Johnson

Doris Kemper

Victor Kilian

Don Kohler

Jack Kruschen

Marie Lampe

Harry Lauter

Herbert Lytton

Kathy Marlowe

Charles McAvoy

Eda Reiss Merin

Daniel Meyers

Howard M. Mitchell

Al Murphy

Frederick O'Neal

Kitty O'Neil

Frank Overton

Dick Paxton

Barbara Pepper

Maudie Prickett

William Pullen

Amanda Randolph

Frank Richards

Davis Roberts

Jerry Sheldon

Kathryn Sheldon

Maude Simmons

Emmett Smith

Ray Teal

Art Thompson

Gertrude Tighe

Jim Toney

Phil Tully

George Tyne

Ann Tyrrell

Ruth Warren

William Washington

Duke Watson

Jasper Weldon

Ruben Wendorf

Leola Wendorff

John Whitney

Mack Williams

Ian Wolfe

Will Wright

Ann Morrison

Charles Flynn

Lesser Samuels

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Bernard Freericks

Lyle R. Wheeler

Stuart A. Reiss

George W. Davis

Darryl F. Zanuck

Thomas Little

Roger Heman Sr.

Charles LeMaire

Edward B. Powell

Milton Krasner

Alfred Newman

Barbara McLean

Travilla

Ben Nye

Fred Sersen

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Talk about biting the hand that would feed you! Two petty thieves end up in hospital after a robbery went wrong. “Ray” (Richard Widmark) is an angry and odious character who refuses to let the duty doctor “Brooks” (Sydney Poitier) anywhere near his injured brother. His protestations are ignored, but when the patient dies his brother begins to make all sorts of vile racist assertions against the doctor. These noises are soon being heard on the streets, and with racial tensions already running high the situation becomes dangerous for the doctor, his family, his hospital and amidst a community at large just itching for a brawl. Central to this toxicity is “Edie” (Linda Darnell). She was formerly married to the deceased man and although she’s not quite a card-carrying member of the KKK, she is still fairly bigoted and is inclined to support the allegations of “Ray”. However, as she sees the brutality unfold might she realise that she is wrong, that “Ray” is wrong and that she might be the only one who can help - especially when “Ray” escapes and sets off on his own path of vengeance. Widmark wasn’t always the most engaging of actors, indeed he could be downright wooden at times, but here there is something viscerally unpleasant about his characterisation and he commits himself completely to depicting an ignorant man convincingly. Darnell is also on great form as a troubled soul for whom it is quite difficult to have sympathy at the start, but whose performance rather effectively epitomises struggles across America with matters of racism, mental illness and to an extent, sexism too. Poitier’s character isn’t so very well developed, but he still manages to bring a professional dignity to his role, especially towards the conclusion, and all in all this is a thought-provoking film that even manages to evoke a little pity, too.

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