Directed by Guy Green • 1961 • United Kingdom
Starring Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger
This daring drama garnered significant controversy for its frank and complex handling of a taboo subject. After his release from prison on charges of intent to commit child molestation, Jim Fuller (an Oscar-nominated Stuart Whitman) attempts to restart his life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist (Rod Steiger). When a young girl is attacked, suspicion immediately falls on Fuller and threatens to derail his budding relationship with a compassionate single mother (Maria Schell).
Directed by Frank Perry • 1962 • United States
Starring Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva
One of the first films to treat the issue of mental illness with sensitivity and compassion, this groundbreaking independent drama traces, with profound humanity, the relationship that develops b...
Directed by Hubert Cornfield • 1962 • United States
Starring Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk
A young psychiatrist (Peter Falk), exasperated by his failed attempts to help a black patient who hates whites, asks to be reassigned. In a story told in flashback, his seasoned superior (Sidney ...
Directed by Theodore J. Flicker • 1967 • United States
Starring James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden
This wild, psychedelic satire stars James Coburn as Dr. Sidney Schaefer, psychiatrist to none other than the president of the United States. When the pressures of his job push Schaefer ...
