Across the Bridge (1957)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Rod Steiger	...	Carl Schaffner
	David Knight	...	Johnny
	Noel Willman	...	Chief of Police
	Marla Landi	...	Mary
	Dolores	...	Dolores
	Bernard Lee	...	Chief Inspector Hadden
	Eric Pohlmann	...	Police Sergeant
	Alan Gifford	...	Cooper
	Ingeborg von Kusserow	...	Mrs. Scarff (as Ingeborg Wells)
	Bill Nagy	...	Paul Scarff
	Faith Brook	...	Kay
	Marianne Deeming	...	Anna
	Stanley Maxted	...	Milton
	Mark Baker	...	Baggage Man
	Jack Lester	...	Sam

Storyline

Corporate executive Carl Schaffner is a German-born British industrialist in New York on business. After he gets word that Scotland Yard is investigating a $3,000,000 embezzlement he has committed, the imperious, mean-spirited Schaffner thinks he has sufficient time to take an inconspicuous train to Mexico where he can escape extradition. He miscalculates, and his crime has become headline news before he can cross the border. He drugs and switches identities with fellow train passenger Paul Scarff, who looks like him and has a Mexican passport. He throws him off the train but later discovers that Scarff is wanted in Mexico as a political assassin. Schaffner must double back and track down Scarff to get his original passport back. He allows himself to be taken to Mexico as Scarff, where he declares his true identity to local police because as Schaffner he is not wanted there. The local police... Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)  

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