The Challenge
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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"Depicting the race between competing teams of English and Italian mountain climbers to be the first to reach the top of the Matterhorn in the Alps, there are a lot of good things about this movie. It may lack the special effects touches that modern movies have, but there are some really good scenes depicting the mountain itself, and some good and realistic mountain climbing scenes. Surprisingly graphic for the time was the scene in which four climbers fall to their deaths. Although shot from a distance, watching the climbers tumble down the mountain was actually quite unnerving. The performanc..."
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The movie was shot back-to-back with Der Berg ruft! (1938) with Luis Trenker as the only actor appearing in both versions. It was a British-German co-production made just one year before the war.
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Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.