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Release Date:
9 March 1964 (Sweden) more
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FILMED IN BLACK, IN WHITE, IN RAGE!... a motion picture without a safety valve!
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An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe. more
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Happy Birthday, Bobby Darin!
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Indeed Bobby D."s best dramatic performance more (31 total)

Cast

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Sidney Poitier ... Doctor (Chief Psychiatrist)
Bobby Darin ... Patient

Peter Falk ... Young psychiatrist
Carl Benton Reid ... Chief medical officer
Mary Munday ... Bar hostess
Barry Gordon ... Boy patient

Howard Caine ... Tavern owner
Gilbert Green ... Jewish Father
Anne Barton ... Mother
James Anderson ... Father
Richard Bakalyan ... Jimmy
Lynn Loring ... Jewish Girl
Yvette Vickers ... Drunken woman
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91 min
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Indeed Bobby D."s best dramatic performance, 8 June 2004
Author: padrepio1501 from valley stream new york

As a kid, I never failed to catch this movie when it was on TV. Bobby D. steals the show as a nazi punk with big time mental problems. He played a similar role in" Captain Newman, M.D." but this one had more meat to it.The boy actor who played Bobby D. as a child is Barry Gordon. There is an interesting Jack Benny connection here. In a 1961 Jack Benny Show, Jack was casting a TV special about his life story. A little boy comes in to audition and Jack is pleased that his parents aren't with him probably because he can get the kid for less money.Then the boy actor's "agent" (Barry Gordon) storms in and makes demands on the surprised Benny. Jack immediately signs up Barry to play him as a child instead of the kid actor. Little Barry wowed the studio audience with a letter- perfect imitation of Benny's famous"Well!" complete with black suit and tie and eyeglasses. A few years later Benny did an episode where he was casting a movie about his life and Bobby D. was the guest star. This time Jack wanted Bobby to play him as a young man! It should also be noted that James Anderson who plays Barry/Bobby's sadistic butcher father in "Pressure Point" is the same actor who played the sadistic racist father in "To KIll a Mockingbird" which like "Captain Newman, M.D." featured a young actor called Robert Duvall as a catatonic.Mr. Anderson was always excellent in a malevolent role. Downright menacing I'd say. If Bobby had lived he might have tied Sinatra in the "legendary all-around entertainer" category.

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