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A Life in the Balance: Directed by Harry Horner, Rafael Portillo. With Ricardo Montalban, Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin, José Pérez. In Mexico City, a poor single father is mistaken for a serial killer by the local cops, but the man's son stumbles upon the real killer and tries to warn the police after being abducted.
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- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Harry Horner, Rafael Portillo
- 1955-07-01
Oct 20, 2001 · Life in the Balance: Directed by Adam Weissman. With Bo Derek, Stewart Bick, Bruce Boxleitner, Jonathan Higgins. A lawyer battling addiction gets a chance to redeem her life when she is assigned to save a death-row inmate from execution.
- (97)
- Drama, Thriller
- Adam Weissman
- 2001-10-20
A Life in the Balance (Harry Horner & Rafael Portillo, 1955) 8/10. Atmospheric little thriller bordering on noir and set in Mexico City during one night. A serial killer (Lee Marvin) stabs a woman and an out-of-work musician (Ricardo Montalban) is arrested for the crime. His young son witnesses the murder and decides to follow the killer.
- Harry Horner, Rafael Portillo
- Tele-Voz S.A., Panoramic Productions
A Life in the Balance is a film directed by Harry Horner, Rafael Portillo with Ricardo Montalban, Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin, José Pérez .... Year: 1955. Original title: A Life in the Balance. Synopsis: Third-billed Lee Marvin dominates the proceedings in A Life in the Balance. Marvin plays a psycho killer, whose trail is dogged by inquistive ...
- (25)
- United States
- Manuel Gómez Urquiza (B&W)
- Harry Horner,, Rafael Portillo
I haven't seen or heard much about Bo Derek lately, so when I noticed this movie I thought I'd tune in to see how she was doing. In "Life In The Balance" she plays a superstar lawyer turned alcoholic and drug addict, who gets one last chance to prove herself by being given a case in which she tries to save a man on death row (Bruce Boxleitner, who also hasn't popped up much recently as far as ...
Mexico City is being terrorized by an elusive serial killer. Meanwhile, widower Antonio Gómez (Ricardo Montalban), an underemployed musician, visits his ex-girlfriend to collect on an unpaid loan ...
- Crime, Drama
No dummy he, Perez leaves a trail for the authorities to follow--a series of smashed-up police call boxes (a similar plot device was deployed for comic purposes by Harold Lloyd in Professor Beware). A Life in the Balance was filmed on location in Mexico City, with a great deal of screen time devoted to a colorful carnival.
