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No Way Out

Name: No Way Out
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1950
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier, Stephen McNally, Mildred Joanne Smith

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.

1950 · Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 106 min · Drama · Crime · Thriller · 8 frames

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Crew

Written by: Lesser Samuels, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematography: Milton Krasner
Edited by: Barbara McLean
Music: Alfred Newman
Produced by: Darryl F. Zanuck

Cast

Richard Widmark as Ray Biddle
Linda Darnell as Edie Johnson
Sidney Poitier as Luther Brooks
Stephen McNally as Dan Wharton
Mildred Joanne Smith as Cora Brooks
Harry Bellaver as George Biddle
Stanley Ridges as Sam Moreland
Dots Johnson as Lefty Jones
Robert Adler as Louie (uncredited)
Ernest Anderson as School Teacher (uncredited)

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: 20th Century Fox
Box office: $1,300,000
Themes: race riot, film noir, hospital, racism, doctor, black doctor

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