Library No Way Out

NO WAY OUT (1950)

USA 106 MINS

Director: Joseph Mankiewicz
Writer: Joseph Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels
Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner

Starring: Sidney Potier, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell

Content/Trigger Warning: Includes graphic violence, racist language and may offend viewers.

Synopsis: No Way Out is a 1950 American film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally and Sidney Poitier, who portrays a doctor tending to slum residents whose ethics are tested when confronted with racism, personified by Richard Widmark as the hateful robber Ray Biddle.

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