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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543214571
Format: Closed-captioned, Black & White, Dolby, Dubbed
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 14075
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1950
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Nominated for the 1950 Oscar® for Best Writing Story and Screenplay this intense drama about racial hatred pulls no punches. When a white patient in a hospital dies under the care of a black intern (Sidney Poitier) the victim s racist brother (Richard Widmark) seeks to destroy the doctor s career. Although the hospital s idealistic Chief Resident (Stephen McNally) tries to diffuse the escalating tension the victim s ex-wife (Linda Darnell) seems to go along with the vengeance-seeker until she realizes she s on the wrong side.Episodes-Bonus Features:FeatureAudio Commentary with Film Noir Historian Eddie MullerPublicity GalleryPhoto GalleryFox Movietone News: Richard Widmark Puts Imprints in CementTheatrical TrailerFox Noir: Dark Corner Where the Sidewalk Ends & LauraFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 024543214571 Manufacturer No: 2231457
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - No way out
Very powerful movie for it's time and subject matter acted perfeclty by Widmark and Sidney.
Rating:  - JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, OPUS 8
*** 1950. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. One nomination for the Academy awards (screenplay). In this social film noir, a racist hoodlum, played by Richard Widmark, taxes a black doctor with the murder of his wounded brother and Linda Darnell doesn't know where's the truth. In my opinion, a minor effort in Mankiewicz's filmography. If one can recognize in NO WAY OUT the familiar Mankiewicz theme of the description of a man's humiliation, some dialogues of the film have aged pretty ... Read More
Rating:  - Good for it's time
For the time in which this film was release, it was ground breaking-or was it? All the movies prior to the 70s that had a black person in the main cast was about the same thing: trying to humanize the black race to whites. You can find movies in the 40s, 50s and 60s, trying to hammer in the same theme. It reached a point that for a couple of decades that was all Poitiers films were about. Insert a profession usually reserved for whites (up until those times) Doctor, a cop, a potiential land owner ... Read More
Rating: - Drama masquerading as film noir
One of the more interesting of the 1950 film noirs is this drama starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and, in his screen debut, Sidney Poitier whose West Indian accent shows up here and there to let the closely-listening viewer know he's black, but definitely not American.
Be that as it may, this is a solid, well thought out piece of filmmaking co-scripted and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz. The powerful social theme of racism is a major one in this film--so much so that the "N" word is ... Read More
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