Adventure starring Glenn Ford and Alida Valli. Carla Alton has always been obsessed with climbing the White Tower, the mountain that claimed her father's life. She joins a disparate group of climbers who, for different reasons, are also determined to conquer its forbidding heights.
This vivid mountaineering drama sees Glenn Ford join a climb in the Swiss Alps. A lot of emotional baggage is carried along with the mountaineers: Ford falls for fellow climber Alida Valli, whose father was killed on the same peak; Lloyd Bridges is an arrogant former Nazi army officer; Cedric Hardwicke is an ageing British botanist; Claude Rains is a self-destructive French writer who is drunk most of the time; Oscar Homolka is the local Alpine guide and predictably neutral. What we have is a political digest of postwar realignment; amazingly enough, the Russians are not represented. Ignore the predictability of the symbolism and the wooden performances, and enjoy the excellent location photography.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Martin Ordway | Glenn Ford |
| Carla Alton | Alida Valli |
| Paul Delambre | Claude Rains |
| Andreas | Oscar Homolka |
| Nicholas Radcliffe | Cedric Hardwicke |
| Mr Hein | Lloyd Bridges |
| Mme Astrid Delambre | June Clayworth |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Ted Tetzlaff |
