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Crisis is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Brooks released in USA on 7 july 1950 with Cary Grant
Crisis (1950)
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Add to a movie listCrisis is a 1950 drama film starring Cary Grant and José Ferrer and directed by Richard Brooks (making his directorial debut). The story of an American couple who inadvertently become embroiled in a revolution, it was based on the short story "The Doubters" by George Tabori.
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Dr. Eugene Ferguson (Cary Grant), a renowned American brain surgeon, and his wife Helen (Paula Raymond) are vacationing in Latin America when a revolution breaks out. They are taken against their will to the country's dictator, Raoul Farrago (José Ferrer), who urgently needs a life-saving operation.Actors
Cary Grant
(Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson)
José Ferrer
(Raoul Farrago)
Paula Raymond
(Helen Ferguson)
Signe Hasso
(Senora Isabel Farrago)
Ramón Novarro
(Colonel Adragon)
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