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Al otro lado del puente
1957 | B/N | 103:00

A financier who has embezzled funds from his company flees from the law to Mexico, where he has money in a bank. On the way, he meets a man who looks a lot like him. He decides to throw the man off the moving train to steal his identity, never imagining that the police are looking for him, too... in Mexico!


Country: Reino Unido
Direction: Annakin; Ken
Script: Elmes; Guy, Freeman; Denis|Basados en el cuento de Graham Greene
Production: Stafford; John
Photography: Wyer; Reginald H.
Sound: McCallum; Gordon K., Messenger; Dudley, Sharpe; Don, Slater; John
Music: Bernard; James
Cast:Steiger; Rod, Knight; David, Willman; Noel, Landi; Marla, Dolores, Lee; Bernard, Pohimann; Eric, Gifford; Alan, Kusserow; Ingeborg von, Nagy; Bill, Brook; Faith
Art direction: Dawe; Cedric
Participation year at FICM: 2024

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