A long while back (Episodes 14—17), we looked at English remakes of non-English films. Those were the same story but different titles. Then in Episode 23, it was four different versions of the same story, with the same title. Now, we give you a pair of films with the same title, but that’s the only thing they have in common: the story lines and subject matter are vastly different from one another.
In this episode we’re screening two films titled No Way Out. In the first half, it’s the 1950 version starring Sidney Poitier in his feature film debut, along with Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and Stephen McNally. Poitier is a doctor who runs into race issues and a medical complication during his first night in a new assignment. The issue snowballs until there’s a full race riot going on. Poitier’s character comes up with an interesting tactic to prove he did the right thing that first night, but it nearly backfires on him.
From there we jump to 1987. This No Way Out stars Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman and Sean Young in a story of Cold War intrigue. We practically guarantee that you’ll be caught off-guard by the way everything resolves.
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Next time around, we’ll continue this gimmick with another pair of films that have the same title and nothing else in common. The films’ title is Loving. One is from 1970 and the other is from 2016.