Intent to Kill is a 1958 British film noir thriller directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Richard Todd, Betsy Drake and Herbert Lom.

Having previously survived an assassination attempt, Juan Menda, president of an unspecified South American country, is moved to Montreal under an anonymous pseudonym for treatment of a potentially fatal cranial blood clot.

Meanwhile, British surgeon Bob McLaurin is under pressure from nagging, dissatisfied wife Margaret , who wants him to give up his job in Canada and move back to London to open a private cosmetic surgery for the wealthy, where he could at least double his income.

The hitmen make their move on what they believe to be Menda's room, only to find they have killed a completely innocent man in the hospital for surgery on a slipped disc.

The hitmen, determined not to lose their payoff, end up acting rashly and their carelessness leads to a confrontation in the hospital corridors, shooting it out with the police while Bob is caught up in the middle.

As confusion and chaos rages in the hospital, one of the hitmen manages to slip away and takes the opportunity to enter Menda's temporarily unguarded room to perform a quick hit.

"[4] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "'The most distinguished of British lighting camermen, here turned director, provides a lively and inventive action thriller, whose best and tensest moments adequately compensate for any improbabilities in the plot.