No Way Out is a 1950 American film noir and drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Dot Johnson and Amanda Randolph who portrays a doctor tending to slum residents whose ethics are tested when confronted with racism, personified by Richard Widmark as the hateful robber Ray Biddle.
No Way Out was controversial in its graphic representation of racial violence in what director Mankiewicz termed the absolute blood and guts of Negro hating.The picture marked the feature film debuts of Sidney Poiter and actress Mildred Joanne Smith.
No Way Out 1950 Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier