Sidney Poitier in Pressure Point Original Lobby Cards, 1962

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[African American Film] Pressure Point. Set of two lobby cards. USA: United Artists Corporation. 1962. Measures 11.5" x 13.5". Two lobby cards show black and white stills from the film with the title and actor's names in bold primary red. The film's plot is about a white doctor frustrated with his black patient who detests the doctor for being white, while Poitier plays the senior psychiatrist who delves into his flashbacks of having been a WWII psychiatrist learning to help his Nazi sympathizer patient twenty years prior. This lesson allows the white doctor to continue treating his patient despite racist ideologies. Poitier believed that Stanley Kramer cast him for the political reasoning of placing a black man in a role that wasn't race-specific, believing that it was more important than any box office. In his autobiography, he noted "...obviously a picture about a black psychiatrist treating white patients was not the kind of sure-fire package that would send audiences rushing into theatres across the country. But Kramer had other gods to serve, and he was faithful to them." At the time, the film suffered a major profit loss as it's controversy may not have been adapted to the social norms of the time. Both lobby cards have pinholes in the corners where they were placed at the time of screening. Overall a very appealing and progressive archive in very good condition.

Item #20093

Price: $80.00