Pressure Point is a 1962 American psychological drama film directed and co-written by Hubert Cornfield. It stars Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin, about a prison psychiatrist treating an American Nazi sympathizer during World War II.

Plot

The film begins at a psychiatric institution in 1962. A young doctor (Peter Falk) on a staff headed by a senior psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) is frustrated with his patient, who is black and detests him because he is white. The doctor has been trying for a breakthrough for 7 1/2 months and feels he cannot go on; he demands that his patient be assigned to another psychiatrist. The senior psychiatrist, who is black, then tells of having an experience 20 years earlier in 1942 with a Nazi sympathizer at a federal penitentiary where he then worked as a psychiatrist.