No Way Out

No Way Out

1950 · 106 min · EN · NR · 6.9 (111 votes)
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier, Stephen McNally, Mildred Joanne Smith, Harry Bellaver · Music Alfred Newman

“Is it a question... or an answer?”

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

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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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