The Search (1948) On DVD

Actor:           Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey, Ivan Jandl                                                                         
Director:      Fred Zinnema 
Genre:         Drama
Year:            1948
Studio:         Warner/Allied Vaughn
Length:        104
Released:    December 17, 2009
Rating:         Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:        DVD
Misc:            NTSC, Black & White
Language:   English
Subtitles  :   N/A

DESCRIPTION:

In post-World War II Germany, a small boy who survived Auschwitz wanders alone - feral, mute and terrified. He finds a makeshift home with a big-hearted GI, while the mother he does not remember searches desperately for him. Starring a then-unknown Montgomery Clift in his movie debut, directed in a near-documentary style by Fred Zinnemann and filmed in the ragged, rubble-strewn skeleton of Nuremberg, The Search vividly captures the horrifying human cost of war. This milestone of filmmaking won two 1948 Academy Awards(r): Best Motion Picture Story and a special award to Ivan Jandl for his haunting performance as the lost child.