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A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.
Joyce Bulifant
- Young Woman Tourist
- (uncredited)
Roger Delgado
- Italian Tourist
- (uncredited)
John Gabriel
- Paul - Guide
- (uncredited)
Helen Hayes
- Tourist
- (uncredited)
James Ramsey Ullman
- Tourist
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Matterhorn was an actual set location and actors and crew were required to climb the summit for filming.
- GoofsThe amount of blood on Captain Winter's bandage keeps changing from scene to scene at the end of the movie.
- Quotes
Emil Saxo: It's the end of it, for him. But it needn't be for us.
Franz Lerner: What do you mean?
Emil Saxo: Tomorrow the weather will be good, after that, who knows? If we leave at first dawn, we'll be there by eight. The boy will stay with him, he won't be left alone. And it's what he would want us to do.
Franz Lerner: It isn't a question of what he would want. A guide - at any rate, a guide of Kurtal - does not leave his client on a mountain and go on alone.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Magical World of Disney: Perilous Assignment (1959)
- SoundtracksClimb the Mountain
Written by Franklyn Marks and 'By' Dunham
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Growing up on the Swiss Alps
Third Man On The Mountain has young James MacArthur working as a dishwasher
in his uncle James Donald's hotel for tourists in Switzerland. But MacArthur longs
to be a mountain climber guide as his father who was a legend in the field. The
father was killed attempting a climb up a forbidding mountain outside their
village some 16 years earlier.
Both Donald and MacArthur's mother Nora Swinburne keep him away from mountaineering, but he does it on his own. When he saves visiting British mountain climber Michael Rennie, Rennie becomes his champion.
Third Man On The Mountain is a fine coming of age film and it's perfectly cast. Both James MacArthur and Janet Munro were being cast in a lot of Disney films at that time and they made perfect young leads. I should also note the presence of Herbert Lom in the cast as a bragging mountaineer from another village who shames the men of MacArthur's village by accompanying Rennie on an attempt up the local Everest. He steals the film when he's on screen.
After 60 years Third Man On The Mountain holds up well and it's fine family viewing.
Both Donald and MacArthur's mother Nora Swinburne keep him away from mountaineering, but he does it on his own. When he saves visiting British mountain climber Michael Rennie, Rennie becomes his champion.
Third Man On The Mountain is a fine coming of age film and it's perfectly cast. Both James MacArthur and Janet Munro were being cast in a lot of Disney films at that time and they made perfect young leads. I should also note the presence of Herbert Lom in the cast as a bragging mountaineer from another village who shames the men of MacArthur's village by accompanying Rennie on an attempt up the local Everest. He steals the film when he's on screen.
After 60 years Third Man On The Mountain holds up well and it's fine family viewing.
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- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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