Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious South American regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.

• Cavalcade Films
• Associated British Picture Corporation
• Leslie Caron
• David Niven
• David Opatoshu
• James Robertson Justice
• Eleanor Summerfield
• Ian Hunter
• Derek Godfrey
• Richard Pearson