This drama by director Anthony Asquith a noted lynchpin in British cinematic history may wear too many hats to be identified as either an adventure a treatise on non-violence a psychological study or whatever It is all of these things as it starts out in the midst of a revolution in a fictional South American country David Niven is Tom Jordan the sometimes disagreeable manager of a British plantation When it becomes apparent that the leader of the country will be forced to flee for his life Tom & his wife Claire (Leslie Caron) end up chauffeuring the wounded President Rivera (David Opatoshu) out of there Tom & Claire are in the midst of marital troubles -- which tend to pale when their car lands in quicksand in a river bed or when she is unexpectedly threatened by a frightening band of young men while out exploring an abandoned village & for the pacifist Tom the worse is yet to come when he is forced to either kill or be killed