Pressure Point
- IMDb link: 0056370
- IMDb rating: 7.1 (2,370 votes)
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Sidney Poitier, Hubert Cornfield
- Cast: Peter Falk, Bobby Darin, Carl Benton Reid and others
- Release date: 11 Jul 1963
- Release year: 1962
- Runtime: 91 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: reference to franklin d. roosevelt, downward spiral, cheating husband, american, psychiatrist, prison, sedition, american nazi, nightmare, african american
Plot:
When a young psychiatrist comes to his Afro-American chief to tell that he cannot bear a 13-year-old patient, the doctor discloses a similar experience he had when he was a rookie working as a prison psychiatrist. In 1942, the doctor is assigned to give psychiatric treatment and evaluate the dangerous American Nazi patient accused of sedition. The racist patient has nightmares and insomnia and the doctor analyzes him along 18 months, finding the reason of his disturbance. The patient convinces the Board of Direction that he deserves to be on probation, but the doctor is reluctant and diagnoses that the patient has only resolved his sleeping problem but is still a despicable bigoted person.