The Searching Wind is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Robert Young, Sylvia Sidney, and Ann Richards.

[1] It had originally been planned for producer Hal Wallis to make the film at Warner Bros., but after he left the studio he brought the project to Paramount Pictures.

[2] In 1945, after hearing of the death of Mussolini, an American career diplomat and his family reflect on his mistakes he made during the interwar years.

Montgomery Clift was in the original cast which was directed by Herman Shumlin.

But even there I meant only to write about nice, well born people who, with good intentions, helped to sell out a world.