While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
Direction
Cardiff's first directing gig after legendary cinematography career
Cinematography
Tight surgical sequences that predate modern medical thrillers
Director
Jack Cardiff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jack Cardiff won an Oscar for cinematography on 'Black Narcissus' before directing this, making every frame suspiciously gorgeous for a B-thriller.
The unnamed Latin American president reflects 1950s Hollywood's cowardice—decades before explicit political thrillers, dictatorships were vaguely 'south of the border.'
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