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Pressure Point, is a gorgeously presented black & white production, produced by Stanley Kramer, and directed by Hubert Cornfield.
I've never been a fan of Mr. Cornfield's work, and have only found a single film, his The Night of the Following Day, of interest.
That noted, there are several reasons that make Pressure Point worth your time to purchase and view. The first falls on the shoulders of social message producer and director, Stanley Kramer, and then, its star Sidney Poitier, whom Mr. Kramer had worked previously on The Defiant Ones.
For me, an even greater rationale is two-fold, and comes from the tech dept. The score by Ernest Gold, and the cinematography by Ernest Haller, which grabs the film by its bootstraps and lifts it to a greater height.
For those unaware of Mr. Haller's work, it goes back to 1911, and hits its stride in 1930, with Howard Hawks talkie, the first version of The Dawn Patrol. In the mid to late 1930s, Mr. Haller's work is full steam ahead with Captain Blood, Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Roaring Twenties and Gone with the Wind, and then arrives in the CinemaScope era with Rebel Without a Cause.
As a Blu-ray, Pressure Point is gorgeous, with gritty, rich, thick blacks and starkly contrasted whites.
Image - 4.75
Audio - 5
4k Up-rez - 4.75
Pass / Fail - Pass
RAH
I've never been a fan of Mr. Cornfield's work, and have only found a single film, his The Night of the Following Day, of interest.
That noted, there are several reasons that make Pressure Point worth your time to purchase and view. The first falls on the shoulders of social message producer and director, Stanley Kramer, and then, its star Sidney Poitier, whom Mr. Kramer had worked previously on The Defiant Ones.
For me, an even greater rationale is two-fold, and comes from the tech dept. The score by Ernest Gold, and the cinematography by Ernest Haller, which grabs the film by its bootstraps and lifts it to a greater height.
For those unaware of Mr. Haller's work, it goes back to 1911, and hits its stride in 1930, with Howard Hawks talkie, the first version of The Dawn Patrol. In the mid to late 1930s, Mr. Haller's work is full steam ahead with Captain Blood, Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Roaring Twenties and Gone with the Wind, and then arrives in the CinemaScope era with Rebel Without a Cause.
As a Blu-ray, Pressure Point is gorgeous, with gritty, rich, thick blacks and starkly contrasted whites.
Image - 4.75
Audio - 5
4k Up-rez - 4.75
Pass / Fail - Pass
RAH
