No Way Out (Fox Film Noir) | 
| Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen Mcnally, Sidney Poitier, Mildred Joanne Smith
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 37410
Format: Closed-captioned, Black & White, Dolby, Dubbed
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2231457D
UPC: 024543214571
EAN: 0024543214571
ASIN: B000CNE08S
Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1950
Release Date: March 7, 2006
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 03/07/2006 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Nr
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 A Shocking Story - Even Today March 30, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
"Shocking" might be an apt description of this movie. Bigotry is the main theme and there is no beating around the bush here. The "n- word" is used at least 20 times in this film in one form or another which is shocking to hear in a classic film.
Richard Widmark plays the main bigot and he is fascinating to watch. Few people in his day could play the wild-eyed fanatical villain as well as he could (see "Kiss Of Death" for his best example).
This was Sidney Poitier's screen debut and he looks about 16 years old! He looks too young to be a doctor even if he is portrayed as someone in their first year of practice. Anyway, with Widmark and Poitier, and a fine supporting cast with some famous names, you have a very, very interesting movie.
To the film's credit, this shows bigotry on both sides: black and white, although it concentrates more on white against black. Linda Darnell plays perhaps the most interesting role because she is the one person who switches back and forth, unable most of the time to figure out what side to take! For those who remember the Naked City TV series, it's also fun to see Harry Bellaver in here, playing Widmark's deaf-mute brother.
This movie could easily be very dated.....but it isn't.
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J. Chadwick (Washington, DC USA)
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No way out April 28, 2008
Skye M. Rowe
Very powerful movie for it's time and subject matter acted perfeclty by Widmark and Sidney.
 JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, OPUS 8 February 9, 2008
wdanthemanw (Geneva, Switzerland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
*** 1950. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. One nomination for the Academy awards (screenplay). In this social film noir, a racist hoodlum, played by Richard Widmark, taxes a black doctor with the murder of his wounded brother and Linda Darnell doesn't know where's the truth. In my opinion, a minor effort in Mankiewicz's filmography. If one can recognize in NO WAY OUT the familiar Mankiewicz theme of the description of a man's humiliation, some dialogues of the film have aged pretty badly. Nevertheless, if you're a fan of this director, you should have this DVD in your library. The quality of the images and the sound is great.
Good for it's time September 23, 2007
nodice (Manchester, Ga United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
For the time in which this film was release, it was ground breaking-or was it? All the movies prior to the 70s that had a black person in the main cast was about the same thing: trying to humanize the black race to whites. You can find movies in the 40s, 50s and 60s, trying to hammer in the same theme. It reached a point that for a couple of decades that was all Poitiers films were about. Insert a profession usually reserved for whites (up until those times) Doctor, a cop, a potiential land owner and then watch the faces of the white people twist with rage. If they wanted this film to be REALLY risky, have the autopsy report state that Dr. Brooks made a mistake. What would have been the message then? Aren't black doctors allowed to make mistakes the same as white doctors? Why have it make the point of Dr. Brookes being an exceptional doctor? His wife boasting about his straight A's and so on and so on. Don't get me wrong. This is a good film, but the theme and its message wasn't as groundbreaking as they claimed. It was just one that needed to be hammered home until the idea took. Still great performances by all the cast members. The script, though predictable, is still good. Overall, this is a film worth your time.
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