In Sidney Poitier's feature film debut, racial tensions simmer, then flare into violence when two white criminals wounded in a shootout are brought into the care of Dr. Brooks (Poitier), the only black doctor at a city hospital. When one brother suddenly dies, the surviving brother accuses Dr. Brooks of killing him and instigates slayings and racial rioting to get revenge. Provocative and nuanced, NO WAY OUT dramatizes the different threads of race relationships, from indifference to blind hatred, that are woven through American society. Starring black actors (it was also Ossie Davis's first film) and filmed at the very cusp of the civil rights movement, only 10 years after Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American actor to win an Oscar, NO WAY OUT was a leap ahead of the mainstream film industry in its head-on tackling of racial prejudice. The script, written by director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels, was nominated for an Oscar.

When a young black doctor fails to save a gangster's brother who is suffering from gunshot wounds, the bigoted honcho orchestrates a string of race riots and slayings as his means of revenge. A provocative melodrama featuring the debut film performances of Sydney Poitier and Ossie Davis, the film also stars Ruby Dee and Richard Widmark, and was directed and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who along with Lesser Samuels, received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay.

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Mono - English
Stereo - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Bonus Footage: "Fox Movietone News: Richard Widmark Puts Imprints in Cement"
Audio Commentary: Eddie Muller - Film Noir Historian
Trailers:
1. Theatrical Trailer
2. Fox Noir Trailers
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos
Galleries: Publicity Gallery

Richard Widmark: American Actor/Producer
Linda Darnell: American Actress
Stephen McNally: American Actor
Sidney Poitier: American Actor, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
Ruby Dee: Actress, married to Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis: Actor/Director/Screenwriter, husband of actress Ruby Dee
Bill Walker: Actor/"The Mask 1961"
Mildred Joanne Smith: 
Harry Bellaver: American Supporting Actor

Joseph L. Mankiewicz: American director

Darryl F. Zanuck: Studio Head, Producer, Source Writer, Director

Joseph L. Mankiewicz: American director
Lesser Samuels: British Screenwriter - GANGWAY

Alfred Newman: Composer/Conductor/D.1970

Barbara McLean: Editor, prestige pics for 20th Century Fox, late '30s-'50s

"...Uncommonly provocative for its day..."
"[A] gutsy social melodrama....[Mankiewicz] unleashes a burst of expressionist brilliance like the complex tracking shot that begins just after the one-hour mark and draws a hellish portrait of a race riot in the making."