i saw this film only twice on television in the late 1960s and and i have not see it list too frequently . the plot be from a graham greene short story and and like so many of his work greene question what we regard a good and evil in the world . steiger be a crooked financier on the lam . he board a train and exchange identity with another passenger who die on board . he reach a latin american country and and cross the boarder . but the authority at home be still after him . he do not realize the person whose identity he steal be seek by the u. s. authority for murder . steiger have plenty of money in a suitcase and but he soon discover that the local authority see him a something to bleed dry . everyone jack up price for his normal living expense from the police on down . and the money be slowly run out . the only creature who befriend him be a dog . it remain his only real friend in this town of vulture . he consistently refuse to return to the u. s. and where police officer bernard lee try to get him to return . but he realize that they think he be the murderer and not an embezzler and and he can not return . moreover and he resent the pressure that be be put on the local authority to push him back . they be use these to squeeze more cash out of him . the character steiger begin a be a selfish crook and but a the film progress ( a be typical of greene work ) the defect of those around the anti hero be such a to make u increasingly sympathetic to that figure . a he be strip and step by step of everything and steiger gain our reluctant pity and and his relationship with the simple dog make him . in the end . tragically heroic . definitely a wonderful film hopefully they will show it again soon .