A Life in the Balance (1955) [N/A]
Featuring:
Ricardo Montalban, Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin
Written by:
Robert Presnell Jr.
Leo Townsend
Georges Simenon
Directed by:
Harry Horner, Rafael Portillo
Release Date:
July 1, 1955
Original Title:
A Life in the Balance
Genres:
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Production Companies:
Panoramic Productions
Tele-Voz S.A.
Production Countries:
Mexico | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 74
A killer with the cunning of a maniac. A little boy with the courage of a lion.
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
Antonio Gomez, a nearly down-and-out musician, is a widower with a young son, Paco. Fighting to support his boy in the face of unemployment and neighbors who want custody of his son (something that here in Mexico City they might just obtain), Gomez argues with an ex-girlfriend over money she owes him. After he leaves, the girlfriend is murdered by the religious-fanatic serial killer terrorizing the city. When neighbors report the argument Gomez had with the dead girl, the police presume they are finally on the hot trail of the serial killer, and Gomez is their target. Gomez goes to a pawnshop to buy his son a long-dreamed-of guitar and meets a young woman with whom he goes looking for his son. What Gomez does not realize is that a police dragnet is closing in on him and that his boy Paco actually witnessed this most recent murder and has been trailing the killer. Before long, the killer is trailing Paco.
