This was Bobby Darin's fourth film and perhaps the best in his brief career. (He did receive an Oscar nomination for his next picture, CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D., but that was due more to studio hype.) Psychiatrist Robert Lindner wrote a best-selling book of short case histories,
The
Fifty-Minute Hour, and a few of the pieces were used for films and TV dramas. This picture was based on "Destiny's Tot." Falk is an analyst who can't break through to his patient and asks for some help from psychiatrist Poitier. This sends Poitier back in time as he recounts some problems he'd had
years before. Poitier had been working for the government during WW II and was assig...
Released:
1962
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins