The Challenge (1938 film)

1938 British film by Milton Rosmer and Luis Trenker

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The Challenge

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Directed by|

* Milton Rosmer
* Luis Trenker

Written by|

* Patrick Kirwan
* Milton Rosmer

Screenplay by| Emeric Pressburger
Produced by|

* Günther Stapenhorst
* Alexander Korda

Starring|

* Robert Douglas

Cinematography|

* Albert Benitz
* Georges Périnal

Edited by| Edward B. Jarvis
Music by| Allan Gray

Production
companies

* Denham Films
* London Film Productions

Distributed by| United Artists

Release date

* 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.

This British film is one of two 1938 Trenker remakes of Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) in which Trenker acted in 1928, the other being the German The Mountain Calls (German: Der Berg ruft).

## Cast

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* 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

## See also

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* The Mountain Calls (1938)
* First ascent of the Matterhorn

## External links

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* The Challenge on YouTube
* The Challenge at IMDb

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Films directed by 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)

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Films by Alexander Korda

As director|

* Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914)
* The Duped Journalist (1914)
* Tutyu and Totyo (1914)
* Lyon Lea (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)
* Man of Gold (1919)
* Neither at Home or Abroad (1919)
* Number 111 (1919)
* 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)
* Lilies of the Field (1930)
* Women Everywhere (1930)
* The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
* The Men Around Lucy (1931)
* Rive gauche (1931)
* Marius (1931)
* Longing for the Sea (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)
* That Hamilton Woman (1941)
* Perfect Strangers (1945)
* An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only|

* Men of Tomorrow (1932)
* That Night in London (1932)
* Women Who Play (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)
* The 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)
* 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)
* Rudyard Kipling's 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)
* 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)

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Luis Trenker

Films directed|

* 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)
* Love Letters from Engadin (1938)
* The Challenge (1938)
* The Fire Devil (1940)
* Barrier to the North (1950)
* Escape to the Dolomites (1955)
* His Best Friend (1962)

Novels|

* Captain Ladurner (1940)

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