

The Search(1948)
Everybody agrees MGM's The Search is a wonderful motion picture!
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.


Movie: The Search
Top 10 Billed Cast
Mr. Crookes
Raoul Dubois
Tom Fisher
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