Pressure Point (1962 film) Wow.... this is spooky.

[TalkingDog]

http://www.amazon.com/Pressure-Point-VHS-Sidney-Poitier/dp/6302605040

"Pressure Point" is a deeply disturbing and compelling study of hate and the forces that breed it. The setting is World War II America. The protagonists are Sidney Poitier, who gives a top-notch performance as a prison psychiatrist, and Bobby Darin, who gives an equally top-notch performance as a hatemongering American Nazi.
Darin's Nazi is in jail for sedition; this is wartime, and he has been writing anti-Government, pro-Fascist tracts. Sidney Poitier's prison psychiatrist is assigned to work with Darin to determine if Darin is legally sane or insane. Therein sets the stage for a battle of wits and wills between the two.

Director Stanley Kramer masterfully sets up the tension. Here we have an avowed Nazi, hater of blacks, Jews, and anyone else that doesn't fit the bill as a "white Christian American" (Darin's words in the film), being treated by an African-American psychiatrist who has to get to the root of Darin's hateful feelings towards everything and everybody.



I just happened upon this on TV.... some of the dialogue comes straight from the Tea Party / fringe / conspiracy contingent.

[Heddi]

1. thx for the tip !! it came on 8pm here but re runs again on 2/3.

i have set the dvr to record it :thumbsup:

[FarPoint]

2. What channel?

Cable? I would like to DVR as well.

[TalkingDog]

3. It may be local, but it's called: THIS TV

Look on ThisTV.com and you might be able to find a local station that carries it.

[FarPoint]

8. Oh...we have that channel!

I watch it fairly often as I DVR " Sea Hunt"....Jeff Bridges father is the lead... Thank you so much....

[Heddi]

4. For me it's Komo 114 on Comcast (I'm in Seattle). I just did a search for the name

and it popped up!!

[aquart]

5. We have it here in NYC. It's on 11-3 broadcast.

Cable people can locate it on the channels listed as "local" in their cable guides. It won't tell them, they have to try each one to find it.

[leveymg]

6. Really, nothing has changed since the KKK and German-American Bund of the 1930s

except that it has a new name and respectability.

[WinkyDink]

7. And the ending is NOT what we are used to seeing.

[Hissyspit]

9. Jules Fieffer's 1971 "Little Murders" is pretty spooky, too, with a bizarre ending.

[WinkyDink]

10. Dang, I saw that then, but don't recall it (was in college, heh)!

[Hissyspit]

12. The most memorable scene is Elliot Gould's character walking through the subway

covered in blood, no one acknowledging him.

[A Simple Game]

11. Netflix has it. nt