And Donald Sutherland in the sick bay, analyzing borscht.
Believe this was one of the first, if not the first, examples of color-blind casting. The reporter isn't described in the novel. The second time that Widmark and Poitier were cast together and at each other's throats. (In real life Widmark was the first friend that Poitier made in Hollywood.) Nice how they both play pricks in the movie, back when a star could do that, instead of always keeping a shiny image.
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