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Plot

Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the single element that keeps Crisis afloat. While vacationing in a politically unstable Latin American country, Ferguson and his wife, Helen (Paula Raymond), find themselves the unwilling house guests of dictator Raoul Farrago (José Ferrer). Suffering from a brain tumor, Farrago insists that Ferguson operate at once. The "crisis" of the title arises when revolutionary leader Gonzales (Gilbert Roland) demands that Farrago be killed on the operating table -- and kidnaps Dr. Ferguson's wife to bind the bargain. Unaware of his wife's plight, Ferguson proceeds with the operation, setting into motion a series of events leading to a grimly ironic denouement. Director Richard Brooks adapted the screenplay of Crisis from a story by George Tabori.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama,Thriller
Run Time:
95min.
Director(s):
Richard Brooks
Starring:
Cary Grant , José Ferrer , Paula Raymond , Signe Hasso , Ramon Novarro
Themes:
Doctors and Patients,Political Unrest,Kidnapping
Tone:
Claustrophobic,Moody,Tense
Keywords:
America,against-the-system,brain-surgery,collapse,democracy,doctor/nurse,espionage,government,irony,kidnapping,oppression,power,rebel,regime,rescue,revolution,sniper,surgery,thug,tracking [following],tyrant,vacation,victim,weapons,wife