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The Search

"Everybody agrees MGM's The Search is a wonderful motion picture!"

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NR 1948 · 1h 44m
Drama
Starring Montgomery Clift · Ivan Jandl · Aline MacMahon
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In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.

Theatrical
Mar 26, 1948
Theaters
1
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Writer
Richard Schweizer
Producers
Oscar Düby, Lazar Wechsler
Music
Robert Blum
Studio
Praesens-Film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Keywords
adoption auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp love little boy post war germany orphan devotion trust displacement camp presumed dead post world war ii english lesson runaway child concentration camp survivor case worker american g.i. search for child drowned child learning english
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M
Montgomery Clift
Ralph Stevenson
I
Ivan Jandl
Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'
A
Aline MacMahon
Mrs. Murray
W
Wendell Corey
Jerry Fisher
J
Jarmila Novotná
Hannah Malik
M
Mary Patton
Mrs. Fisher
F
Fred Zinnemann
Interpreter (uncredited)

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