A Life in the Balance (1955)

Directors

Harry Horner

Cast

Anne Bancroft, Fanny Schiller, Lee Marvin, Rodolfo Acosta

The story

Antonio Gomez is a nearly destitute musician and widower with an 11-year-old boy named Paco in Mexico City. Trying to support Paco in the face of unemployment and neighbors who want custody of his son, Gomez argues with an ex-girlfriend over money that she owes him. His girlfriend is murdered by the religious fanatic serial killer terrorizing the city, who stabs his young female victims and leaves them with their arms folded.

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