No Way Out (1950)
Is it a question... or an answer?
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
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Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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) User Reviews (1)
Talk about biting the hand that would feed you! Two petty thieves end up in hospital after a robbery went wrong. “Ray” (Richard Widmark) is an angry and odious character who refuses to let the duty doctor “Brooks” (Sydney Poitier) anywhere near his injured brother. His protestations are ignored, but when the patient dies his brother begins to make all sorts of vile racist assertions against the doctor. These noises are soon being heard on the streets, and with racial tensions already running high the situation becomes dangerous for the doctor, his family, his hospital and amidst a community at large just itching for a brawl. Central to this toxicity is “Edie” (Linda Darnell). She was formerly married to the deceased man and although she’s not quite a card-carrying member of the KKK, she is still fairly bigoted and is inclined to support the allegations of “Ray”. However…
