Intent to Kill Intent to Kill

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.

Richard Todd Betsy Drake Herbert Lom Warren Stevens Carlo Giustini Paul Carpenter Alexander Knox Lisa Gastoni Peter Arne Catherine Boyle John Crawford

Zonic Productions Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

thriller drama

88 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Everett Jones

    Review by Everett Jones ★★½

    Any big fan of the Powell & Pressburger filmmaking team has to be, by extension, a big fan of their greatest cinematographer, Jack Cardiff. And while you'll probably find much of what he wrote or directed apart from the famous duo to be far less inspired, I've never found any of it to be less than professional, as with this 1958 completist's item, a thriller probably most distinguished by nice location shooting in Montreal. Unfortunately, its script, by Hammer veteran Jimmy Sangster, keep most of the promised thrills at bay with laborious soap operatics. Rather than the parallel storylines of adultery, I was most diverted by seeing future "Pink Panther" series castmates Herbert Lom and Peter Arne in the same film.…