A Life in the Balance (1955)

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Country: Mexico, USA
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1955-07-01
Director: Harry Horner
Writers: Robert Presnell Jr. , Leo Townsend , Georges Simenon
Language: English
Stars: Ricardo Montalban , Anne Bancroft (I) (1931–2005) , Lee Marvin , José Pérez , Rodolfo Acosta , Carlos Múzquiz , Jorge Treviño , José Torvay , Eva Calvo , Fanny Schiller
Runtime: 74 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: A Life in the Balance , Жить в гармонии (Russian Federation) , Henki vaakalaudalla (Finland) , La sixième victime (Belgium) , La sixième victime (France, French Republic) , Ansias de matar (Mexico) , Vrouwenmoordenaar (Netherlands the) , Жить в гармонии , A Life in the Balance (United Kingdom) , 7 Rue Pigalle (United States of America) , Entre a Vida e a Morte (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , A Noite Conspira com a Morte (Brazil) , A Matter of Life and Death (United States of America) , A Life in the Balance (Canada) , Het zesde slachtoffer (Belgium) , A Life in the Balance (Mexico) , Eros kai stiletto (Greece) , O viaţă în balanţă (Romania) , Det 7:e mordet (Sweden)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0048301