La tour blanche

Original title: The White Tower

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A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.

Director
- Ted Tetzlaff
Writers
- Paul Jarrico
- James Ramsey Ullman
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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

1.1K

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Director
- Ted Tetzlaff
Writers
- Paul Jarrico
- James Ramsey Ullman
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Dr. Nicholas Radcliffe
(as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)

Lloyd Bridges

Mr. Hein

June Clayworth

Mme. Astrid Delambre

Lotte Stein

Frau Andreas

Edit Angold

Frau Knubel
(uncredited)

Irmgard Dawson

Swiss maid
(uncredited)

Fred Essler

Knubel
(uncredited)

Director
- Ted Tetzlaff
Writers
- Paul Jarrico
- James Ramsey Ullman
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Trivia
Ted Tetzlaff, who directed this, was better known as a cinematographer. He spent more than a decade under contract to Paramount, where he became Carole Lombard's favorite director of photography. When Lombard was loaned out to Universal for the original 1936 version of My Man Godfrey, she specifically requested Tetzlaff be loaned out as well.

Goofs
When the climbers reach their first camp, the guide tells them that they will pitch two tents, but only take one tent up the mountain the next day. When they reach their second camp they have two tents pitched as well.

Quotes
Martin Ordway: Oh, what do we have here?
Paul DeLambre: [holding two bottles] Brandy. One for medicinal purposes, and one for celebration - when we reach the top.
Martin Ordway: What if you don't?
Paul DeLambre: Then for consolation.

Connections
Referenced in Le choix de...: The Titanic Incident (1955)

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8/10

Based on the book by James Ramsey Ullman - copyright 1945

I was fortunate enough to see it in the 1950-51 time period in color. The heroine played by "Valli" (who used only that one name that I knew of at that time) wore tight sweaters, and was at least as spectacular as the mountain they were going to climb. The story stayed fairly close to the book. One line that we used for quite a while after that was "To rest is not to conquer", said by the "villain" when they stopped en route to the mountain. After all of these years, I was rereading the book for the umpteenth time, and thought it might be fun to see the movie again. It seems to be out of print. For a complete description of the plot and the characters go to "RKO movies", and look for the title..