# Across the Bridge

Title: Across the Bridge Summary: A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters. Directed by: Ken Annakin Actors: Rod Steiger, David Knight, Bernard Lee Production Company: Independent Film Producers (IFP) Release Date: 6 September 1957 (Denmark) Aspect Ratio: 1.75: 1 Color: Black and White On the run from the US police after being charged with embezzlement, a billionaire attempts to flee to Mexico by stealing the identity of a stranger. However, his life is made much more difficult when he finds out that that man is a wanted Mexican criminal. 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…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1957
- Runtime: 1 h 39 min
- By: Independent Film Producers (IFP)
- Genres: Drama, Crime
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/AcrossTheBrigde)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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