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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of a Negro intern (Sidney Poitier) who tries and fails to save the life of a white patient in a county hospital. When the patient dies, his brother (Richard Widmark), a thief and pathological Negro-hater, refuses to permit an autopsy that might vindicate the doctor. Himself a patient in the hospital, Widmark baits Poitier mercilessly, dupes the dead man's ex-wife (Linda Darnell) into igniting a race riot. Poitier, who gets the nasty job of treating the riot's white victims, finally forces an autopsy by falsely confessing to the patient's murder...
...Another squirted a fire extinguisher at him. The fire puffed out. Dominick had made no sound, but he had endured fearful burns. His shirt was all but gone, he had breathed flame, and his throat and lungs were scorched. The rescue work stopped and Dr. Harold Berson, a young intern from Coney Island Hospital, was lowered to him. He greased the burns and gave Dominick morphine; a priest was lowered, performed the last rites of the Catholic Church...