This Cary Grant film is shown less often on TV than most of his films. Part of this may be because it certainly isn't among his very best films but part of it also must be due to its odd plot. Cary is a famous brain surgeon who's on vacation in South America with his wife. A nasty dictator is dying and needs brain surgery, so Cary and the wife are abducted and brought to meet the "president for life" (Ferrer). Grant is told that he really has no choice about doing the operation, because his and his wife's lives are forfeited if he refuses or botches the operation, as they know that Grant would much rather see this evil little dictator assume room temperature. Because of this, it's a tense little film. Also, I particularly liked the ending. On so many levels, it was an excellent wrap-up for the film--both in what occurred to the dictator as well as his replacement.
Review of Crisis
