Comedy thriller directed by Philip Dunne and starring Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale. After high-ranking scientist Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) suffers a nervous breakdown, he becomes targeted by a band of terrorists who ransom their captives off to communist governments. As a result, both Vincenti's sister Vicky (Cardinale) and his psychiatrist Dr. Bartholomew Snow (Hudson) unwittingly become major players in a conspiracy revolving around the troubled scientist and whether or not he has been a double agent all along.