An excellent cast go through the motions (generally in an upwards direction, it being a mountaineering film) in pristine Technicolor.
As befits a film directed by a former cameraman who went all the way to Mont Blanc to shoot it (well, some of it), it's all ravishing to watch; especially a youthful Alida Valli in her one Technicolor film during her brief spell in Hollywood billed Garbo-style simply as 'Valli'.
As befits a film directed by a former cameraman who went all the way to Mont Blanc to shoot it (well, some of it), it's all ravishing to watch; especially a youthful Alida Valli in her one Technicolor film during her brief spell in Hollywood billed Garbo-style simply as 'Valli'.