A Life in the Balance

Directed by Rafael Portillo, Harry Horner
Approved
July 1, 1955    74mThriller, Crime,
6.167%6.4
In Mexico City, a poor single father is mistaken for a serial killer by the local cops, but the man's son stumbles upon the real killer and tries to warn the police after being abducted.

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  • Ricardo MontalbanAntonio Gómez
  • Anne BancroftMaría Ibinia
  • Lee MarvinThe Killer
  • José PérezPaco Gómez
  • Rodolfo AcostaLt. Fernando
  • Carlos MúzquizCapt. Saldana
  • Jorge TreviñoSergeant
  • José TorvayAndrés Martínez
  • Eva CalvoCarla Arlota
  • Fanny SchillerCarmen Martínez
  • Tamara GarinaDoña Lucrecia
  • Pascual García PeñaPorter (as Pascual G. Pena)
  • Tony CarbajalPedro (as Antonio Carbajal)
  • Rafael PortilloDirector
  • Harry HornerDirector
  • Leo TownsendScreenplay
  • Robert Presnell Jr.Screenplay
  • Georges SimenonNovel
  • Leonard GoldsteinProducer
  • Gunther GerszoArt Direction

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