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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792859222
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792859227
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: MGM
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: MGM
MPN: M110053
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 20, 2004
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: MGM
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Oscar® winner* Sidney Poitier sizzles in an electrifying role (Show Business Illustrated) as a prison psychiatrist who clashes with a racist inmate (Bobby Darin) in this explosive and provocative (Citizen News) drama that packs a powerful wallop (LA Herald Examiner)! A prison doctor is charged with treating a hate-filled young man who s been jailed for sedition. As he probes the patient s nightmares the psychiatrist realizes his twisted visions mask a lust for violence. But the inmate has become a model prisoner and unless the doctor can convince officials that he s dangerous he ll soon be back on the street. *1963: Actor Lilies of the Field; 2001: Honorary AwardFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 027616901491 Manufacturer No: M110053
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
5 STARS : Crooner Bobby Darin gives a studied performance in this still relevant drama about a Nazi sympathizer. Sydney Poitier is uniformly superb as Darin's 1940s prison psychiatrist.
Darin is both manipulative and pathetic as the adult victim of childhood abuse. We are allowed to see how his pathological character is formed. Darin allows us to feel some sympathy for this despicable man.
We follow along and see how the Lee Harvey Oswalds and Timothy McVeys of the world all too easily ... Read More
Rating:  -
I had heard many good things about this "explosive and provocative drama", so I decided to check this film out. While the performances are very good and story is interesting, this film about racism and psychological analysis is a bit dated. The artsy camerawork was probably something in it's day, but I found myself getting bored with some of the stagey tactics and monotonous screenplay. The DVD has a good transfer, but I found the audio to have a low bass flutter, making the voices a chore to hear.......this ... Read More
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Bobby Darin holds his own against the great Sidney Poitier in an intense psychological duel between a black prison psychiatrist and a charismatic, white supremacist patient angling for parole. Even as he helps Darin conquer his personal demons, Poitier realizes that his patient remains an unrepentant threat to society. Worse, he finds that Darin has fooled the rest of the staff into believing he has reformed. Darin cunningly taunts Poitier by explaining how easily the visceral appeal of his "cause" is spread ... Read More
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This is a truly excellent & powerful film that portrays the tense therapeutic relationship between a prison psychiatrist (Poitier) and a self-exalted American Nazi upstart (Darrin). Although incarcerated for sedition, Darrin's real imprisonment is within his own mind and persecutory complexes. and he suffers agonizing panic attacks, which results in his having to submit to therapy at the hands of someone he considers his inferior. He learns that his terrors are really the eruption of PTSD symptoms, and that his ... Read More
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Although the genesis of hate crimes is worthy of a film treatment, this heavy-handed 1962 melodrama is weighed down by too many theatrical flourishes to be as genuinely powerful as was once intended. Some critics at the time praised the bravery of such an undertaking, but one can see in hindsight how director Hubert Cornfield, who co-wrote the screenplay with Robert Lindner, doesn't seem to trust the basic material enough to provide a more straightforward telling of the case history of a psychopathic convict who ... Read More
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