Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
race riot
film noir
hospital
racism
doctor
black doctor
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Letterboxd
3.7 / 5
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Cast
Richard Widmark
Ray Biddle
Linda Darnell
Edie Johnson
Sidney Poitier
Luther Brooks
Stephen McNally
Dan Wharton
Mildred Joanne Smith
Cora Brooks
Harry Bellaver
George Biddle
Stanley Ridges
Sam Moreland
Dots Johnson
Lefty Jones
Robert Adler
Louie (uncredited)
Ernest Anderson
School Teacher (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
Woman (uncredited)
Eleanor Audley
Wife (uncredited)
Crew
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
Barbara McLean
Editor
Milton Krasner
Director of Photography
Travilla
Costume Design
Popular Reviews
20 reviews
Mel RygusPRO
8.0★ · 11/26/25
Bone chilling and gripping from the first frame. Like Gaslight only somehow much more insidious. I felt like I could have gone to the multiplex today and seen this - that’s how devastatingly modern it felt!
Bone chilling and gripping from the first frame. Like Gaslight only somehow much more insidious. I felt like I could have gone to the multiplex today and seen this - that’s how devastatingly modern it felt!
mimi
6.0★ · 02/11/25
“Ain’t that askin’ a lot for us to be better than them when we get killed just trying to prove we’re as good?”
“Ain’t that askin’ a lot for us to be better than them when we get killed just trying to prove we’re as good?”
