Extremely well done account of a displaced person in post war Europe - a little kid who lost his family in the camps. Mum is looking for him but she's up against it.
This was the first time audiences got to see Montgomery Clift (though he'd made Red River earlier). He doesn't appear until 35 minutes in and is role isn't that big - it's still a lead but the little kid and his mother have more screen time. Also Aline MacMahon, as a no nonsense official has a big role. A more conventional film would've had this part be played by a starlet who had a love affair with Clift.
Clift is great - kind, awkward,decent. Wendell Corey has a small role (apparently he was holidaying in Zurich when this was made). There's some fake drama in act three when Clift tells the kid his mother's dead when the mother is alive.
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