Regie:
Edward DmytrykScenario:
Ranald MacDougallCamera:
Franz PlanerMuziek:
Daniele AmfitheatrofActeurs:
Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, Barbara Darrow, Richard Arlen, E.G. Marshall, Anna Kashfi, Yves Brainville, Richard Garrick (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Retired mountain climber and guide Zachary Wheeler (Spencer Tracy) reluctantly helps his younger brother (Robert Wagner) scale a treacherous mountain slope to reach the site of a recent plane crush. Truly his brother's keeper, he puts aside their differences and agrees to help his inexperienced brother on an immoral looting mission. After reaching the crash site the brothers discover a lone survivor (Anna Kashfi). Zachary immediately starts caring for the injured young woman planning her rescue while his brother would rather abandon her and make off with the loot. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Recensie (1)
The Mountain is a nice story about the characters of very different brothers whose complicated coexistence plays out as a drama set high up in the mountains. The film is both spectacular and intimate, as well as illogical in the continuity of the scenes during the ascent. In individual passages, however, it does well with its detailed depiction of the technical aspects of climbing the old-fashioned way – with a pick instead of an ice axe and a hammer from the barn for driving belay anchors into the rock face. The film’s driving force is Spencer Tracy as a grandfather beaten down by life and conscious of the hierarchy of values. The film wouldn’t have had such soul with a less committed actor.
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