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Heidi Siegmund Cuda
Aug 28, 2023
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In Sidney Poitier’s debut film — ‘No Way Out’ — Poitier played a young doctor, in charge of a hospital’s prison ward on the night two bank robbers were brought in for treatment after being shot in their legs. When one of the robbers dies as Poitier is treating him, his brother — a racist named Ray Biddle played by Richard Widmark — thinks Poiter intenti…

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