Across the Bridge
- Original title
- Across the Bridge
- Year
- 1957
- Running time
- 103 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Rod Steiger
- David Knight
- Marla Landi
- Noel Willman
- Bernard Lee
- Eric Pohlmann
- Alan Gifford
- Ingeborg von Kusserow
- Bill Nagy
- Faith Brook
- Marianne Deeming
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- Music
- Cinematography
Reginald H. Wyer (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Thriller. Film noir | Crime. Trains / Subways
- Movie Groups
- Graham Greene Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Corporate executive Carl Schaffner is a German-born British industrialist in New York on business. After he gets word that Scotland Yard is investigating a $3,000,000 embezzlement he has committed, the imperious, mean-spirited Schaffner thinks he has sufficient time to take an inconspicuous train to Mexico where he can escape extradition. He miscalculates, and his crime has become headline news before he can cross the border. He drugs and switches identities with fellow train passenger Paul Scarff, who looks like him and has a Mexican passport. He throws him off the train but later discovers that Scarff is wanted in Mexico as a political assassin. Schaffner must double back and track down Scarff to get his original passport back. He allows himself to be taken to Mexico as Scarff, where he declares his true identity to local police because as Schaffner he is not wanted there. The local police...
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