Director Sydney Pollack, who has since gained critical acclaim with They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Three Days of the Condor, made his big-screen bow with this essay in suspense, about the fight to locate a woman (Anne Bancroft) who is threatening to commit suicide. Pollack and Oscar-winning writer Stirling Silliphant (he won it for In the Heat of the Night) cast the star of the film, Sidney Poitier, as the young worker at a `crisis clinic' (an American equivalent of The Samaritans), and he responds with a performance that radiates sincerity and fervour. Silliphant based the story of the film on real-life characters and incidents.


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