No Way Out (1950)

When the bigoted Biddle brothers are shot and apprehended while committing a robbery, they’re hauled to the hospital for treatment. But when one dies under the care of the facility’s sole Black doctor, the racist surviving sibling accuses the MD of murder, igniting a firestorm of racial tension. In his screen debut, Sidney Poitier electrifies director-co-writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s gripping drama. Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, and Stephen McNally co-star.