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Third Man on the Mountain

6.7 105 mins Adventure   Drama   Family   1959
Walt Disney Productions  
Director(s): Ken Annakin

Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney Productions, released in 1959. It is adapted from a novel by James Ramsey Ullman, entitled "Banner In The Sky". In the middle of the 19th century in Switzerland, a famous British mountaineer, Captain John Winter, wanted to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A young man from the village, Rudi Matt, whose father died fifteen years earlier during an attempt to climb the Citadel, is determined to accompany him, with the help of his uncle. Winter also manages to hire a guide from a neighboring village and competitor, Emil Saxo. The roped party of four men then begins the ascent of the still untouched summit.

Casts of Third Man on the Mountain

Michael Rennie

as Captain John Winter

James MacArthur

as Rudi Matt

Janet Munro

as Lizbeth Hempel

James Donald

as Franz Lerner

Herbert Lom

as Emil Saxo

Laurence Naismith

as Teo Zurbriggen

Lee Patterson

as Klaus Wesselhoft

Helen Hayes

as Hotel guest (uncredited)

Walter Fitzgerald

as Herr Hempel

Nora Swinburne

as Frau Matt

Ferdy Mayne

as Andreas

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