During the turbulent Civil Rights era of the early 1960s , at a prison a veteran psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) tells his past experiences to another unexperienced and youngest psychologist (Peter Falk) who becomes discouraged with his inability to reach a disaffected , institutionalized patient . Poitier encourages his subordinate by relating his own case ocurred long time ago . Developing a long flashback , happening twenty years earlier when he was a prison psychiatrist treating an inmate who's a perturbed racist and a member of the Nazi party . As his patient results to be a fanatic Nazi and along the way Poitier attempting to ferret out out the problems of his unsettling mental sick . A young white young black man. . Filmed in black , in white , in rage !..... a motion picture without a safety valve!
This interesting movie contains awesome performances with strong battle of wits , tension , suspense , intrigue , unlimited excitement , plot twists and adding an adequate cinematography by Ernest Gold . Based on a true case from Dr. Robert M. Linderner's ¨The Fifty-Minute Hour¨ . Besides , it has a literately witty dialog with distinctive dramatic set pieces and thought-provoking writing credits by S. Lee Pogostin and director Hubert Cornfield himself . Dealing with a supervising psychiatrist, who is black , assigned to the distasteful task of treating of helping a viciously paranoid race-baiting Nazi charged with sedition and concerning the psychoanalysis , as Poitier uncovers his patient's previous life through Freudian analysis , an usual theme in post-WWII time. There're also exciting and notorious dream sequences in psychoanalysis style in similar style to other 50s films such as ¨Alfred Hitchock's Spellbound¨ and its famous images designed by painter Salvador Dali. Superb performances from main characters : Sidney Poitier as an African-American prison psychiatrist who finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a young Peter Falk telling past experience with a deranged patient , while the great acting is provided by Bobby Darin as the disturbed inmate with bigoted , paranoid Nazi tendencies .
The motion picture was well directed by Hubert Cornfield and uncredited Stanley Kramer who produced as well . Turkish-born Hollywood director Hubert Cornfield of sparse output , he acquired an interest in films growing up in Paris and befriending New Wave directors Jean Luc-Godard, Francois Traffaut and Jean-Pierre Melville . Cornfield's American films in the 50's and 60's have been received with mixed critical reviews and his first film was ¨Sudden Danger¨ , continuing with ¨Lure of the Swamp¨ and uncredited ¨Angel Baby¨ . After the Film Noir ¨Plunder Road¨, a heist film , he continued to make Noir style movies even after Noir ended , into the early sixties like ¨The 3rd Voice¨, and then his most famous, ¨The Night of the Following Day¨, a Neo Noir kidnapping thriller starring Marlon Brando . Throughout his career he directed legendary actors Marlon Brando , Sidney Poitier, Peter Falk, Edmond O'Brien and frequently cast Wayne Morris . While prestigious producer/director Stanley Kramer was consequently tagged as a "message film maker" and "Hollywood's Conscience" . Among his most popular films are : The pride and the Passion¨, ¨On the beach¨, ¨¨ Judgment at Nuremberg¨, ¨Ship of fools¨, ¨World is mad , mad ,mad¨ . However , ¨Oklahoma crude¨ resulted to be a flop at box office , and , of course, this ¨Guess Who's Coming to Dinner¨ and many others.
This interesting movie contains awesome performances with strong battle of wits , tension , suspense , intrigue , unlimited excitement , plot twists and adding an adequate cinematography by Ernest Gold . Based on a true case from Dr. Robert M. Linderner's ¨The Fifty-Minute Hour¨ . Besides , it has a literately witty dialog with distinctive dramatic set pieces and thought-provoking writing credits by S. Lee Pogostin and director Hubert Cornfield himself . Dealing with a supervising psychiatrist, who is black , assigned to the distasteful task of treating of helping a viciously paranoid race-baiting Nazi charged with sedition and concerning the psychoanalysis , as Poitier uncovers his patient's previous life through Freudian analysis , an usual theme in post-WWII time. There're also exciting and notorious dream sequences in psychoanalysis style in similar style to other 50s films such as ¨Alfred Hitchock's Spellbound¨ and its famous images designed by painter Salvador Dali. Superb performances from main characters : Sidney Poitier as an African-American prison psychiatrist who finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a young Peter Falk telling past experience with a deranged patient , while the great acting is provided by Bobby Darin as the disturbed inmate with bigoted , paranoid Nazi tendencies .
The motion picture was well directed by Hubert Cornfield and uncredited Stanley Kramer who produced as well . Turkish-born Hollywood director Hubert Cornfield of sparse output , he acquired an interest in films growing up in Paris and befriending New Wave directors Jean Luc-Godard, Francois Traffaut and Jean-Pierre Melville . Cornfield's American films in the 50's and 60's have been received with mixed critical reviews and his first film was ¨Sudden Danger¨ , continuing with ¨Lure of the Swamp¨ and uncredited ¨Angel Baby¨ . After the Film Noir ¨Plunder Road¨, a heist film , he continued to make Noir style movies even after Noir ended , into the early sixties like ¨The 3rd Voice¨, and then his most famous, ¨The Night of the Following Day¨, a Neo Noir kidnapping thriller starring Marlon Brando . Throughout his career he directed legendary actors Marlon Brando , Sidney Poitier, Peter Falk, Edmond O'Brien and frequently cast Wayne Morris . While prestigious producer/director Stanley Kramer was consequently tagged as a "message film maker" and "Hollywood's Conscience" . Among his most popular films are : The pride and the Passion¨, ¨On the beach¨, ¨¨ Judgment at Nuremberg¨, ¨Ship of fools¨, ¨World is mad , mad ,mad¨ . However , ¨Oklahoma crude¨ resulted to be a flop at box office , and , of course, this ¨Guess Who's Coming to Dinner¨ and many others.