| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | USA | USD 665,000 |
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | USA | USD 665,000 |
Watch this film and not only will you realize how good singer Bobby Darin could be in a dramatic role, but you may come to regard its co-writer / director Hubert Cornfield ("The Night of the Following Day") as an under-rated talent. It's mostly a two character piece in which an eminent psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) attempts to help one of his employees (Peter Falk) by telling a story of the major case of his life, when he was a prison doctor during WWII.
With modest budgets, Edgewood Entertainment's action films do manage to entertain. They're paced well, by and large.
Did anyone notice the apple moving when Dellacourt was hung up in the log cabin? Gave it a 2 for RiffTrax.
The movie itself sucks donkey balls. Boring.
After CIA operative Sebastian Dellacourt (Don Mogavero) botches an assassination attempt, he's tried and sentenced to jail. Sometime later, one of Dellacourt's old bosses offers him a chance at freedom if he'll complete one last mission - bust up a dangerous militia bent on destroying the US government.
At the beginning of the film Peter Falk's character storms into the office of the head psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier), and complains about how he can't take it anymore dealing with a black patient he has been assigned to analyze. The head psychiatrist goes into a long story about a somewhat similar situation he had encountered back at the beginning of WWII.
Terrific two-hander with Poitier as a prison psychiatrist playing opposite Bobby Darin's Nazi prisoner. Poitier's counsellor doesn't get the opportunity for many flourishes - he takes on the role by wearing glasses, basically - so it's up to Darin to get the showy stuff.
The 1962 Pressure Point is a period piece, of its time, and of the period in which most of the action takes place, some twenty years earlier. As related in flashback, psychiatrist Sidney Poitier relates to a young colleague how he dealt with a patient who was a psychopathic racist when he was getting his start in his profession.
Pressure Point (1962)Who can blame Bobby Darin for wanting to be like Frank Sinatra? And he dives into a heady, emotional role that has echoes, at least in the acting, to Sinatra's "Man with the Golden Arm" performance.
