No Way Out 1950

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No Way Out ★★½ 1950

When bigoted bad guy Roy Biddle (Widmark) and his brother George (Bellaver) are shot, they're taken to a small hospital run by Dr. Wharton (McNally), who believes in giving all his doctors a fair chance. So black doctor Luther Brooks (Poitier) works on George, who dies. Naturally, Roy blames the doctor and gets his hoodlum pals to cause some bloody confrontations. 105m/B VHS, DVD . Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Stephen McNally, Linda Darnell, Harry Bellaver, Stanley Ridges, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis; D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; W: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels; C: Milton Krasner; M: Alfred Newman.

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