Clift was making his first movie, RED RIVER, when he was approached by Zinnemann to read the first draft of the script by Peter Viertel, and he liked it enough to commit to making THE SEARCH (which, as it turned out, was released before RED RIVER). When Swiss producer Wechsler hired his
son to help rewrite the screenplay, Clift became angered and began to substitute his own words for those in the script. Attorneys were called in to mediate, and, in the end, the younger Wechsler and co-author Schweizer won an Oscar for a screenplay that contained many of Clift's words.
THE SEARCH begins in a camp for children who have been orphaned or displaced by WWII. Among th...
Released:
1948
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins