Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
No Way Out
Tagline: Is it a question... or an answer?
Release Date: 1950-08-16
Duration: 106 minutes
Synopsis
Robbers Ray Biddle and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks, the hospital's only black doctor. The brothers assault Brooks with racist slurs. And, when his brother ends up dying on the operating table, Ray accuses the doctor of murdering him. Blind with rage, Ray works to turn the white community of the city against Brooks, who finds an unlikely ally in the dead man's widow, Edie.
Casting
- Harry BellaverGeorge Biddle
- Frank OvertonIntern (uncredited)
- Eleanor AudleyWife (uncredited)
- Barbara PepperWoman (uncredited)
- Richard WidmarkRay Biddle
- Will WrightDr. Cheney - Coroner (uncredited)
- Ossie DavisJohn Brooks (uncredited)
- Ruby DeeConnie Brooks (uncredited)
- Ian WolfeWatkins (uncredited)
- Sidney PoitierDr. Luther Brooks
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