A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Pauline Barker
- Clara
- (uncredited)
Joby Blanshard
- Health Inspector Matthews
- (uncredited)
Felix Bowness
- Wellford
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLast film of Graham Moffatt
- GoofsThroughout the movie smallpox vaccinations are administered to people who've not received one within a year. When administered properly, the smallpox vaccine needs to be given just once. It lasts a lifetime.
- ConnectionsRemake of Armchair Theatre: The Pillars of Midnight (1958)
Featured review
Not great
Officials in the City of Bath have to find "80,000 Suspects" in this 1963 film starring Richard Johnson, Claire Bloom, Yolande Donlan, and Cyril Cusack. Johnson is Steven Monks, an overworked doctor, and Bloom is his wife, Julie, an ex-nurse, who delay their vacation to fight a pending epidemic of smallpox. There is tension between the two; Monks had an affair with another doctor's wife, Ruth (Donlan), who becomes the subject of a search when it's learned that she was with someone infected with smallpox.
A very uninvolving movie that concentrates more on the relationship of the husband and wife than it does the tracking down of people who may have been infected with smallpox. That doesn't necessarily make it less interesting, but in this case, it's hard to warm up to the main characters. The lesser characters are actually far more likable and interesting - Michael Goodlife as Ruth's devastated husband and Basil Dignam as the worried chief medical officer.
There's not much in the way of raw emotion from either Johnson nor Bloom, both excellent actors but neither one particularly warm. The script calls for them to be very stoic.
Could have been compelling - isn't.
A very uninvolving movie that concentrates more on the relationship of the husband and wife than it does the tracking down of people who may have been infected with smallpox. That doesn't necessarily make it less interesting, but in this case, it's hard to warm up to the main characters. The lesser characters are actually far more likable and interesting - Michael Goodlife as Ruth's devastated husband and Basil Dignam as the worried chief medical officer.
There's not much in the way of raw emotion from either Johnson nor Bloom, both excellent actors but neither one particularly warm. The script calls for them to be very stoic.
Could have been compelling - isn't.
Details
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content