Crisis

Cary Grant, the smooth embodiment of American decency in scores of Hollywood productions, strolls through this misfiring melodrama as a brain surgeon forced to perform a dangerous operation on a South American dictator. Ideas concerning repression and freedom are rather too obviously put forward in Richard Brooks's flawed directorial debut, but he went on to the rather more subtle The Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Elmer Gantry.