Crisis (1950)

Director
Richard Brooks

Main cast
Cary Grant; José Ferrer; Paula Raymond; Signe Hasso; Ramon Novarro

Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller

Description
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.


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