Crisis (1950)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Richard Brooks

Writers:

George Tabori (story)
Richard Brooks (writer)

Release Date:

7 July 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Carefree Cary Grant on a gay holiday with his lovely bride walks right into DANGER!

Plot:

Dr Ferguson is a brain surgeon, on vacation with his wife in a small Spanish-speaking country. This...

Plot Keywords:

Dictatorship | Brain Tumor | Beautiful Woman | Doctor

Cast

Cary Grant	...	Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson
José Ferrer	...	Raoul Farrago (as Jose Ferrer)
Paula Raymond	...	Helen Ferguson
Signe Hasso	...	Senora Isabel Farrago
Ramon Novarro	...	Colonel Adragon
Gilbert Roland	...	Roland Gonzales
Leon Ames	...	Sam Proctor

Also Known As:

Basra (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Australia:G

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

Originally banned in Mexico, Central and South America.

Quotes:

[Farago is about to be operated by Eugene]
Raoul Farrago: Doctor, do many people die in an operation like this?
Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson: Under the best conditions, about 12 percent. These are not the best conditions.
Raoul Farrago: You don't like me, do you?
Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson: I try to regard my patients impersonally.
Raoul Farrago: Can you?
Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson: No.

Obscure Cary Grant drama bears watching

Even someone who's been keeping track of old movies for many years can be forgiven if this one slipped under the radar. Surgeon Cary Grant and his wife are vacationing in a South- or Central-American paradise when they are abducted by government forces. Seems the country's dictator (Jose Ferrar) has a brain tumor but is afraid to leave the country due to revolutionary activity. Grant is pressured into performing the operation. Only problem is, the guerrillas have captured his wife, threatening to kill her if Ferrar survives the operation. But the letter informing him of this never reaches Grant.... Supporting cast includes Leon Ames, Ramon Navarro (Ben-Hur of the silent era) and Signe Hasso as Ferrar's wife, an Evita Peron clone. This is a tense and often intelligent drama (and slightly out of Grant's usual debonair range) that doesn't merit the obscurity it seems to be buried in.