The Search

This 1948 gem isn't a "Hollywood" movie-treatment, thankfully. It's a quasi-documentary, parts filmed in post-war, occuppied Germany.Jarmila Novotna was a world-class opera singer born in Prague. She sang in Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany prior to the war, and came to... Full review

Here's a nice, touching story of a post World War II orphan in Germany/Eastern Europe, his mother searching for him and an American GI who takes him in.The GI, played humanely by Montgomery Clift, teaches the kid English and looks... Full review

This film marked the feature film screen debut of Montgomery Clift. It was not meant to be that way. Red River was made first, but held up in release due to a threatened lawsuit. So The Search ended up being... Full review

I have been haunted by THE SEARCH since I first saw it when it first came out in 1948. I have since been on my own search to be able to see it again. Finally I saw it again at... Full review

Aside from some dated music and ponderous narration, this is a nearly perfect film. It's surprising, then, that people rarely talk about this being among Montgoery Clift's best work. I, for one, prefer this over From Here to Eternity, Raintree... Full review

Almost a documentary it is so visually factual. The best artificial replicas of twenty-first century film-making could never equal the impact of experiencing such a movie made in its own time and place.Add to that the considerable acting talent of... Full review

I first saw this film when I was 16. My country(Portugal)having escaped he horrors and devastation of WWII but not the ravages of long-enduring fascism, I immediately related to all the main characters in it - particularly the little boy... Full review

After watching Roberto Rossellini's 1947 final part of his war trilogy "Germania anno zero", Fred Zinnemann's "The Search" is in direct contrast. While Rossellini approaches a similar subject with absorbing objectivity, "The Search" opts for sentimentality, although Zinnemann tried to... Full review

I first saw this film when it was released in 1948. I was a teenager. At that time, in my limited experience, it was the best film I had ever seen. These many decades later I have seen as many... Full review

THE SEARCH (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1948), directed by Fred Zinnemann, as mentioned after the opening credits, was produced in Switzerland and in the United States occupied zone of Germany through the permission of the United States Army and through the cooperation of... Full review