The Search

"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."

Cast

Montgomery Clift

as Ralph Stevenson

Ivan Jandl

as Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'

Aline MacMahon

as Mrs. Murray

Wendell Corey

as Jerry Fisher

Jarmila Novotná

as Hannah Malik

Mary Patton

as Mrs. Fisher

Ewart G. Morrison

as Mr. Crookes

Leopold Borkowski

as Joel Markowsky

Claude Gambier

as Raoul Dubois

William Rogers

as Tom Fisher

Fred Zinnemann

as Interpreter (uncredited)

Crew

Richard Schweizer

Screenplay

Fred Zinnemann

Director

Oscar Düby

Associate Producer

Robert Blum

Original Music Composer

Robert Furrer

Production Design

Robert Gamma

Costume Design

Adolf Meidert

Makeup Artist

Míla Mellanová

Assistant Director

Emil Berna

Director of Photography

Lazar Wechsler

Producer

Montgomery Clift

Writer

Betty Smith

Writer

Peter Viertel

Writer

Paul Wartmann

Sound

Hermann Haller

Editor

David Wechsler

Writer

Paul Jarrico

Writer