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  1. A Life in the Balance is a 1955 American-Mexican thriller film directed by Harry Horner and Rafael Portillo and starring Ricardo Montalbán, Anne Bancroft and Lee Marvin. It was shot in Mexico, and distributed in the United States by Twentieth Century Fox .

  2. 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.

    • (252)
    • Crime, Mystery, Thriller
    • Harry Horner, Rafael Portillo
    • 1955-07-01
  3. 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...

    • (1)
    • Harry Horner, Rafael Portillo
    • Crime, Drama
  4. A Life in the Balance (1955) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  5. Based on the novella A Matter of Life and Death by Georges Simenon in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Jan 1952).

  6. 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. Antonio Gomez, a nearly down-and-out musician, is a widower with a young son, Paco.

  7. Third-billed Lee Marvin dominates the proceedings in A Life in the Balance. Marvin plays a psycho killer, whose trail is dogged by inquistive young Jose Perez. Jose's father, musician Ricardo Montalban, has been accused of a series of murders.