Release Date: 3/7/2006 Original Release: 1950 Format: DVD Length: 106 minutes Rating:Not Rated Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 024543214571 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainm
In Sidney Poitier's feature film debut, racial tensions simmer, then flare into violence when two white criminals wounded in a shootout are brought into the care of Dr. Brooks (Poitier), the only black doctor at a city hospital. When one brother suddenly dies, the surviving brother accuses Dr. Brooks of killing him and instigates slayings and racial rioting to get revenge. Provocative and nuanced, NO WAY OUT dramatizes the different threads of race relationships, from indifference to blind hatred, that are woven through American society. Starring black actors (it was also Ossie Davis's first film) and filmed at the very cusp of the civil rights movement, only 10 years after Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American actor to win an Oscar, NO WAY OUT was a leap ahead of the mainstream film industry in its head-on tackling of racial prejudice. The script, written by director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels, was nominated for an Oscar.
DVD Features
Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Mono - English Stereo - English Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Bonus Footage: "Fox Movietone News: Richard Widmark Puts Imprints in Cement" Audio Commentary: Eddie Muller - Film Noir Historian Trailers: 1. Theatrical Trailer 2. Fox Noir Trailers Text/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos Galleries: Publicity Gallery
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