I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
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Directed by	Henry King
Produced by	Lamar Trotti
Written by	Henry King Lamar Trotti
Based on	A Circuit Rider's Wife 1910 novel by Corra Harris
Starring	Susan Hayward William Lundigan Rory Calhoun Barbara Bates Gene Lockhart Alexander Knox Lynn Bari
Music by	Sol Kaplan
Cinematography	Edward Cronjager
Edited by	Barbara McLean
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release dates	February 17, 1951 (1951-02-17)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2,150,000 (US rentals)

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain is a 1951 Technicolor religious drama film made by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Henry King and produced by Lamar Trotti from a screenplay by Henry King and Lamar Trotti based on the novel by Corra Harris about a minister and his wife in the South of the 1910s. The music score was by Sol Kaplan and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager.

The film stars Susan Hayward and William Lundigan with Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart, Alexander Knox and Lynn Bari.

Plot summary

William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary Elizabeth (Susan Hayward), a woman from the city. William is assigned a new parish and moves with Mary Elizabeth to a small town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.

Cast

• Susan Hayward as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
• William Lundigan as Rev. William Asbury Thompson
• Rory Calhoun as Jack Stark
• Barbara Bates as Jenny Brock
• Gene Lockhart as Jeff Brock
• Lynn Bari as Mrs. Billywith
• Ruth Donnelly as Glory White
• Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Brock
• Alexander Knox as Tom Salter

External links

• I'd Climb the Highest Mountain at IMDb
• I'd Climb the Highest Mountain at AllMovie
• I'd Climb the Highest Mountain at the TCM Movie Database
• I'd Climb the Highest Mountain at the American Film Institute Catalog