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      No Way Out

      1950, Drama, 1h 46m

      14 Reviews 500+ Ratings

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      Robbers Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark) and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks (Sidney Poitier), the hospital's only black doctor. The brothers assault Brooks with racist slurs. And, when his brother ends up dying on the operating table, Ray accuses the doctor of murdering him. Blind with rage, Ray works to turn the white community of the city against Brooks, who finds an unlikely ally in the dead man's widow, Edie (Linda Darnell).

      • Genre: Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

      • Producer: Darryl F Zanuck

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

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      • Distributor: 20th Century Fox

      • Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox

      Cast & Crew

      Linda Darnell
      Sidney Poitier
      Stephen McNally
      Harry Bellaver
      Stanley Ridges
      Dots Johnson
      Ruby Dee
      Ken Christy
      Ossie Davis
      Frank Richards
      George Tyne
      Robert Adler
      Bert Freed
      Jim Toney
      Maude Simmons

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      • Dec 08, 2020

        Ground breaking film for its time as it bravely details the challenges a black man has to overcome even when he's accomplished much. The great irony of the movie is that despite the good intentions of the filmmakers, the studio still underpaid the movie's black performers and even bypassed putting the names of several African-American performers like the great Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

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      • Mar 31, 2020

        A hard film to even open up: race relations, Hollywood-style, from the 1950s - I'll take a pass, scheduling my sermons on Sunday as needed. But this rises above the usual patronizing/sermonizing thanks in part to an intelligent in-your-face script, easy-on-the-tiller directing, and simply an off-the-charts job by the leading cast, of whom nobody collects an easy paycheck. It took me awhile to get to this one, over a year, and I was entirely wrong to do so. Superb work all around.

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      • Sep 05, 2010

        A really good movie, it's both a serious drama focused on racism and the medical profession, and an exciting thriller with criminals. Poitier and Widmark give great performances.

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      • Feb 04, 2009

        Richard Widmark is a "Negro-Hater" who blames Sidney Poitier for his brother's death. Intense but stylized social commentary featuring a rather nice performance by Miss Linda Darnell.

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