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''Storm Over Tibet'' is a 1952 American
adventure film The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...
directed by
Andrew Marton Andrew Marton (born Endre Marton; 26 January 1904 – 7 January 1992) was a Hungarian-American film director. In his career, he directed 39 films and television programs, and worked on 16 as a second unit director, including the chariot race in ...
and starring
Rex Reason Rex George Reason Jr. (November 30, 1928 – November 19, 2015) was an American actor best known for his role in '' This Island Earth'' (1955). He was the elder brother of actor Rhodes Reason. Life and career Reason was born in Berlin, Germany ...
and
Diana Douglas Diana Love Webster (née Dill; formerly Douglas and Darrid; January 22, 1923 – July 3, 2015), known professionally as Diana Douglas, was a Bermudian-American actress who was married to actor Kirk Douglas from 1943 until their divorce in 1951 ...
.


Plot

During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains.


Cast

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Rex Reason Rex George Reason Jr. (November 30, 1928 – November 19, 2015) was an American actor best known for his role in '' This Island Earth'' (1955). He was the elder brother of actor Rhodes Reason. Life and career Reason was born in Berlin, Germany ...
as David Simms *
Diana Douglas Diana Love Webster (née Dill; formerly Douglas and Darrid; January 22, 1923 – July 3, 2015), known professionally as Diana Douglas, was a Bermudian-American actress who was married to actor Kirk Douglas from 1943 until their divorce in 1951 ...
as Elaine March Simms *
Myron Healey Myron Daniel Healey (June 8, 1923 – December 21, 2005) was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California during the early 1940s and eventually made hundreds of appearances in movies and on television during a career span ...
as Bill March (as Myron Healy) *
Robert Karnes Robert Anthony Karnes (June 19, 1917 – December 4, 1979) was an American film, stage and television actor. Life and career Karnes was born in Kentucky. He served in World War II, during which he toured the Pacific with the Maurice Evans Tr ...
as Radio Operator *
Strother Martin Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in Western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. Among Martin's memorable ...
as Co-pilot * Harold Fong as Sergeant Lee * Harold Dyrenforth as Professor Faber * Jarmila Marton as Mrs. Faber *
William Schallert William Joseph Schallert (July 6, 1922 – May 8, 2016) was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career spanning more than 60 years. He is known for his roles on ''Richard Diamond, Private ...
as Aylen * John Dodsworth as Malloy * Marcella Concepcion as High Lama (as M. Concepcion)


Production

The film used footage filmed by Andrew Marton of the 1934 International Himalayan Expedition led by Norman Dyrenforth, whose son Harold Dyrenforth played a character based on his father. Much of the footage appeared in Marton's 1935 Swiss-German film '' Demon of the Himalayas'' with some sequences reused by Columbia in their 1937 film ''
Lost Horizon ''Lost Horizon'' is a 1933 novel by the English writer James Hilton. The book was turned into a film, also called '' Lost Horizon'', in 1937 by the director Frank Capra and a musical remake in 1973 by the producer Ross Hunter with music by Bu ...
''. Actor Rex Reason made his debut in the film telling an interviewer he was chosen for his role because the film needed an actor who could physically fit the shots of the previous actor who had died. Reason's 27 minutes of footage included climbing sequences filmed in an indoor studio using white painted
corn flakes Corn flakes, or cornflakes, are a breakfast cereal made from toasting flakes of corn (maize). Originally invented as a Breakfast, breakfast food to counter indigestion, it has become a popular food item in the American cuisine, American diet and ...
as snow.Weaver, Tom ''Rex Reason'' in ''Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews'' McFarland, 19 Feb. 2003
Arthur Honegger Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss-French composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, '' Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher'' is "more even ...
reused some of his score from ''Demon of the Himalayas''.


See also

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List of American films of 1952 A list of American films released in 1952. '' The Greatest Show on Earth'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L M-N O-R S-T U-Z Serials Shorts and documentaries See also * 1952 in the United States ...


References


Bibliography

* Greene, Naomi. ''From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda: Images of China in American Film''. Hong Kong University Press, 2014.


External links

* 1952 films 1952 adventure films 1950s English-language films American adventure films Films directed by Andrew Marton Climbing and mountaineering films American remakes of foreign films American remakes of German films Columbia Pictures films Films about Tibet Films scored by Leith Stevens Films set in the Himalayas American black-and-white films 1950s American films English-language adventure films {{1950s-adventure-film-stub