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• Region: All Regions
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000G1GAWU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,290 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant story + Flawless acting = Timeless film!!!, November 22, 2006

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David Irwin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Search [DVD] - Montgomery Clift, Aline Jamilia - BY GOLDEN CLASSIC COLLECTIBLES (DVD)

What can I say? I've watched this film 5 times since I received it in the mail last week and it always leaves me in tears. Karel is one of many displaced children in post WW2 Germany searching for his Mother (played by opera singer Jarmila Novotna with resolve and stoicism like no other). She in turn is searching for him, refusing to believe the American Embassy when they tell her he has drowned. Montgomery Clift, in his screen debut, plays Ralph "Steve" Stevenson, an American G.I. who finds Karel, takes him in and teaches him English in order to take him back to the States to start a new life.
Clift is brilliant...the first method actor preceding Dean and Brando...and his Chemistry with the young Karel (actor Ivan Jandl, who won a special Oscar for his performance) is both sensitive and hilarious all at once. Check out the scene where Clift is trying to make the boy give him a simple yes or no answer to his questions ~ it's priceless! Your loyalties shift throughout the picture. You want Karel to remain safe with Steve but you also want him to reunite with his mother. The ending will have you both in suspense and in tears! Bust out the Kleenex box...this film is a classic tearjerker...and PERFECT!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful movie, shame about the quality of the DVD...., September 16, 2008

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Pilou "Pilou" (France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Search [DVD] - Montgomery Clift, Aline Jamilia - BY GOLDEN CLASSIC COLLECTIBLES (DVD)

I waited many years for this brilliant movie to come out on DVD and must confess that I was rather disappointed in the overall quality of the transfer. It is almost better to watch it on video as at least the pictures seem to be more stable... a great shame, for this is a truly wonderful and touching movie with Montgomery Clift at the height of his talent.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Search, November 30, 2008

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Beverly Chabinsky (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Search [DVD] - Montgomery Clift, Aline Jamilia - BY GOLDEN CLASSIC COLLECTIBLES (DVD)

Compelling classic film for ages 8 up about a mother and son searching for each other after World War II. Those children at the younger end of the spectrum might need a small amount of clarification to understand the scope of the film. I had seen it at 8 years of age and never forgot it. I just watched it for the first time since then with my grandchildren, 9 years and 13 years, and we all sat mesmerized to the final "sit on the edge of your seat" minute. It is both educational and heart wrenching.