The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

Director
Gordon Douglas

Main cast
Angie Dickinson; Peter Finch; Roger Moore; Errol John; Woody Strode

Genres
Drama

Description
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.


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