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Across the Bridge (1957)

99 min · Thriller, crime film, drama film

Popularity3.5/5
12-month trend1.5k397Expand

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1.5k02025-09: 776 views2025-10: 1,230 views2025-11: 583 views2025-12: 526 views2026-01: 891 views2026-02: 397 views2026-03: 527 views2026-04: 1,498 views2026-05: 518 views2026-06: 517 views2026-07: 1,543 views2026-08: 820 views
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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Ken Annakin

Cast

Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi, Noel Willman

The story

Businessman Carl Schaffner flees to Mexico with the police hot on his heels after embezzling company funds. He has a fortune stashed in a Mexican bank to keep it out of reach of the British authorities. While travelling by train, Schaffner drugs and switches identities with fellow train passenger Paul Scarff, who looks like him and has a Mexican passport.

Catalogue themes and tags

Thriller, Crime Thriller, Psychological thriller, Film noir

Genres

Thriller, crime film, drama film

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