Crisis
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when hes forced to operate on a South American dictator.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 23, 2009
- Originally Released: 1950
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso, Cary Grant, José Ferrer & Ramon Novarro | |
Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
Director of Photography: | Ray June |
Entertainment Reviews:
Brooks is adept at maintaining the tension.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Demonstrando segurança já em sua estréia como diretor, Brooks cria um filme de moral complexa que se torna mais fascinante sempre que Ferrer e Grant dividem a tela.
Cinema em Cena
A rather garrulous script does not prevent this from being, in the main, a competent and intelligent suspense story.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: C- --
A heavy-handed and dour political melodrama.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Slow-moving script is well-executed by cerebral director Brooks, and given vitality by Rozsa's atmospheric sound-tracking.
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TV Guide
An interesting product of Dore Schary's more Reithian regime at MGM.
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Film4
Rating: 2/5 --
With such a penny-dreadful story, it is remarkable that Mr. Brooks has been able to get any substance of even passing consequences on the screen.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Eugene Ferguson pledged to help people when he became a doctor, but will he perform a life-saving surgery on a South American tyrant (Jose Ferrer) who's taken him captive? Yes, if Ferguson hopes to leave the troubled land. No, if he heeds the threats made by revolutionaries determined to overthrow the despot.
Cary Grant plays Ferguson, a physician navigating the unexpected terrain between a rock and a hard place in this political thriller that's the directorial debut of Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry). The role is a change of pace for Grant, and he prepared for it with diligent study and observation of surgical procedures. The result is a portrayal rooted in reality and put across with the uncanny talent of one of film's greatest stars.
Cary Grant plays Ferguson, a physician navigating the unexpected terrain between a rock and a hard place in this political thriller that's the directorial debut of Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry). The role is a change of pace for Grant, and he prepared for it with diligent study and observation of surgical procedures. The result is a portrayal rooted in reality and put across with the uncanny talent of one of film's greatest stars.
Product Description:
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.
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- UPC: 883316126844
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