The Challenge (1938 film)

The Challenge
DVD cover
Directed by	Milton Rosmer Luis Trenker
Produced by	Günther Stapenhorst Alexander Korda
Written by	Patrick Kirwan Milton Rosmer
Screenplay by	Emeric Pressburger
Starring	Robert Douglas
Music by	Allan Gray
Cinematography	Albert Benitz Georges Périnal
Edited by	Edward B. Jarvis
Production company	Denham Films London Film Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	1938 (1938) (UK)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Challenge is a 1938 British drama film directed by Milton Rosmer and Luis Trenker and starring Robert Douglas and Luis Trenker. The film is about the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 by Edward Whymper. The film is a remake of Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) in which Trenker acted in 1928.

Cast

Robert Douglas as Edward Whymper
Frank Birch as Rev. Charles Hudson
Geoffrey Wardwell as Lord Francis Douglas
Moran Caplat as Mr. Hadow
Lyonel Watts as F.K. Morris, Publisher
Luis Trenker as Jean Antoine Carrel
Mary Clare as Carrel's Mother
Fred Groves as Bruno Favre, Innkeeper
Joan Gardner as Felicitas Favre, Favre's Daughter
Laurence Baskcomb as The Podesta, Mayor
Ralph Truman as Signor Giordano
Reginald Jarman as Minister Sella
Tony Sympson as Luc Meynet
Cyril Smith as Customs Officer
Lloyd Pearson as Alexander Seiler, Innkeeper
Violet Howard as Mrs. Seiler
Babita Soren as Mrs. Croz
Luis Gerold as Croz, Guide
Max Holzboer as Peter Taugwalder Sr., Guide
Emmerich Albert as A Ropemaker
Howard Douglas as A Ropemaker

External links

The Challenge on YouTube
The Challenge at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Milton Rosmer

Balaclava (1928)
Dreyfus (1931)
The Perfect Lady (1931)
Many Waters (1931)
P.C. Josser (1931)
After the Ball (1932)
Channel Crossing (1933)
The Secret of the Loch (1934)
What Happened to Harkness? (1934)
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
Emil and the Detectives (1935)
The Guv'nor (1935)
Everything Is Thunder (1936)
The Great Barrier (1937)
The Challenge (1938)

The films of Alexander Korda

As director

1910s	Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914) The Duped Journalist (1914) Tutyu and Totyo (1914) Lea Lyon (1915) The Officer's Swordknot (1915) White Nights (1916) The Grandmother (1916) Tales of the Typewriter (1916) The Man with Two Hearts (1916) The One Million Pound Note (1916) Cyclamen (1916) Struggling Hearts (1916) The Laughing Saskia (1916) Miska the Magnate (1916) St. Peter's Umbrella (1917) The Stork Caliph (1917) Magic (1917) Harrison and Barrison (1917) Faun (1918) The Man with the Golden Touch (1918) Mary Ann (1918) Ave Caesar! (1919) White Rose (1919) Yamata (1919) Neither at Home or Abroad (1919) Number 111 (1919)

1920s	The Prince and the Pauper (1920) Masters of the Sea (1922) A Vanished World (1922) Samson and Delilah (1922) The Unknown Tomorrow (1923) Everybody's Woman (1924) Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924) Dancing Mad (1925) Madame Wants No Children (1926) A Modern Dubarry (1927) The Stolen Bride (1927) The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927) Yellow Lily (1928) Night Watch (1928) Love and the Devil (1929) The Squall (1929) Her Private Life (1929)

1930s	Lilies of the Field (1930) Women Everywhere (1930) The Princess and the Plumber (1930) The Men Around Lucy (1931) Rive gauche (1931) Marius (1931) Längtan till havet (1931) The Golden Anchor (1932) Service for Ladies (1932) Wedding Rehearsal (1932) The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) La dame de chez Maxim's (1933) The Girl from Maxim's (1933) The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) Rembrandt (1936)

1940s	That Hamilton Woman (1941) Perfect Strangers (1945) An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only

1930s	Women Who Play (1932) Men of Tomorrow (1932) That Night in London (1932) Strange Evidence (1933) Counsel's Opinion (1933) Cash (1933) Catherine the Great (1934) The Private Life of the Gannets (1934) (short) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) Things Are Looking Up (1935) Sanders of the River (1935) Wharves and Strays (1935) (short) The Ghost Goes West (1935) Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (1936) (short) The Fox Hunt (1936) Things to Come (1936) I Stand Condemned (1936) Men Are Not Gods (1936) Forget Me Not (1936) The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) Fire Over England (1937) I, Claudius (1937) (unfinished) Dark Journey (1937) Elephant Boy (1937) Farewell Again (1937) Storm in a Teacup (1937) Action for Slander (1937) Knight Without Armour (1937) The Squeaker (1937) Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937) Paradise for Two (1937) The Divorce of Lady X (1938) The Drum (1938) South Riding (1938) The Challenge (1938) Prison Without Bars (1938) Q Planes (1939) The Four Feathers (1939) The Rebel Son (1939) The Spy in Black (1939) The Lion Has Wings (1939) Over the Moon (1939)

1940s	21 Days (1940) Conquest of the Air (1940) The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Old Bill and Son (1941) Lydia (1941) To Be or Not to Be (1942) Jungle Book (1942) The Biter Bit (1943) (short) The Shop at Sly Corner (1947) A Man about the House (1947) Mine Own Executioner (1947) Night Beat (1948) Anna Karenina (1948) The Winslow Boy (1948) The Fallen Idol (1948) Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) That Dangerous Age (1949) The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949) Saints and Sinners (1949) The Third Man (1949)

1950s	The Cure for Love (1950) The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) The Angel with the Trumpet (1950) The Bridge of Time (1950) (short documentary) My Daughter Joy (1950) State Secret (1950) The Wooden Horse (1950) Seven Days to Noon (1950) Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) The Wonder Kid (1951) Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) Outcast of the Islands (1952) Home at Seven (1952) Who Goes There! (1952) Cry. the Beloved Country (1952) Edinburgh (1952) (short documentary) Road to Canterbury (1952) (short documentary) The Sound Barrier (1952) The Holly and the Ivy (1952) The Ringer (1953) Folly to Be Wise (1953) Twice Upon a Time (1953) The Captain's Paradise (1953) The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) The Man Between (1953) The Heart of the Matter (1954) Hobson's Choice (1954) The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) The Teckman Mystery (1954) The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) Three Cases of Murder (1955) A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) The Deep Blue Sea (1955) Summertime (1955) Storm Over the Nile (1955) Richard III (1955) Smiley (1956)

The films of Luis Trenker

The Son of the White Mountain (1930) Mountains on Fire (1931) The Rebel (1932) The Prodigal Son (1934) Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (1936) Condottieri (1937) The Mountain Calls (1938) The Challenge (1938) His Best Friend (1962)

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The Challenge (1938 film)

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