No Way Out sees Poitier play Luther Brooks, a newly qualified doctor who's assigned to cover in the prison ward on his first night. There he treats two of the notorious Biddle brothers who are brought in after being shot and caught by the police. One of them, Johnny (Dick Paxton), looks considerably worse off than his leg injury suggests and Brooks thinks he may actually have a brain tumour. The doctor decides to take action straight away, but it's too late and Johnny dies. Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark), a violent racist, blames Brooks for his brother's death and vows to take revenge once he's on his feet, not only on Brooks, but on the local black community as a whole. On top of this pressure, Brooks is worried that perhaps he was to blame for the patient's death, so wants an autopsy to define the cause. This requires consent from Johnny's closest family though and Ray of course would never allow it...
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier, Harry Bellaver
Country: USA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
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