No Way Out

Year: 1950

Grade: B+

Country: USA

Director: Mankiewicz

Review

good noir about a black doctor (poitier) who has a patient die on his watch and is then accused by the patient’s brother (widmark) of deliberately killing him. it sinks its teeth into a lot of racial stuff and gets pretty ugly at times (widmark is pure vitriol), but i think that’s how racism manifested itself at the time.