No Way Out

No Way Out

1950 · 106 min · EN · NR · 6.9 (83 votes)
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier, Stephen McNally, Mildred Joanne Smith, Harry Bellaver · Music Alfred Newman

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Robbers Ray Biddle and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks, the hospital's only black doctor. The brothers assault Brooks with racist slurs. And, when his brother ends up dying on the operating table, Ray accuses the doctor of murdering him. Blind with rage, Ray works to turn the white community of the city against Brooks, who finds an unlikely ally in the dead man's widow, Edie.

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A stark, gripping noir that plunges into the heart of racial prejudice. It's a tense, morally complex drama where simmering anger and suspicion boil over into a desperate fight for truth.

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