No Way Out.
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Dr. Luther Brooks is the first African-American doctor at the urban county hospital at which he trained. Brooks is intern who has just passed the state board examination to qualify for his license to practice. Johnny (Dick Paxton) and Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark) were both shot in the leg by a policeman as they attempted a robbery. As Luther tends to the disoriented Johnny, he is bombarded with racist slurs by Ray, who grew up in Beaver Canal, the white working class section of the city. Luther administers a spinal tap, believing that Johnny has a brain tumor, but he dies during the
Credits
- Directed by
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Written by
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast
- Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Linda Darnell, Betsy Blair, Richard Widmark, Ian Wolfe, Victor Kilian, Eleanor Audley, Ossie Davis, Robert Adler, Jack Kruschen, Stephen McNally, Frank Overton, Bert Freed, Barbara Pepper, Frederick O'Neal, Harry Lauter, John Whitney …
- Produced by
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Cinematography
- Milton Krasner
- Music
- Alfred Newman
- Edited by
- Barbara McLean
Copyright
16Aug50 LP518, renewed 12Sep77 R671300 Renewal claimant: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Registered 6Dec72 · LP43492 (Jan-Jun 1974) Copyright holder: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Inc Production company: MGM-TV Registered 24Aug77 · LP49530 (Jul-Dec 1977) Copyright holder: Q.M. Productions
Complete catalog record
NO WAY OUT. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1950. 106 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 16Aug50; LP518.
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, country, genre, description, credits, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q2265844 ↗
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright
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