The Search
“Everybody agrees MGM's The Search is a wonderful motion picture!”
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.
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Cast
11 people
Montgomery Clift
Ralph Stevenson
Known for
I Confess
A Place in the Sun
Ivan Jandl
Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'
Also in
The Green Notebook
Conscience
Aline MacMahon
Mrs. Murray
Known for
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Man from Laramie
Wendell Corey
Jerry Fisher
Known for
Rear Window
Sorry, Wrong Number
Jarmila Novotná
Hannah Malik
Also in
The Great Caruso
The Bartered Bride
Mary Patton
Mrs. Fisher
Known for
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Ewart G. Morrison
Mr. Crookes
Also in
The Last Chance
Leopold Borkowski
Joel Markowsky
Also in
Racławice. 1794
Claude Gambier
Raoul Dubois
Also in
L'Escalier sans fin
William Rogers
Tom Fisher
Fred Zinnemann
Interpreter (uncredited)
Fred Zinnemann Director · Richard Schweizer Screenplay Robert Blum Composer
United States release March 26, 1948 · Produced in Switzerland, United States · Languages Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish
Production
Praesens-Film
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Studio
Praesens-Film AG
Production
Switzerland · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Czech · English · French · German · Hebrew · Hungarian · Polish
Release dates
United States · March 23, 1948
Premiere · New York City, New York
United States · March 26, 1948
Theatrical
Austria
February 1, 1949 · Theatrical
Brazil
January 1, 1949 · Theatrical
France
October 7, 1949 · Theatrical
Japan
June 4, 1954 · Theatrical
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