
The Crystal Trench is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1959 and based on the book of the same name by A.E.W. Mason, first published in 1915. The movie features Alfred Hitchcock, James Donald, Patricia Owens, Werner Klemperer, Ben Astar, Patrick Macnee, and others.
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Storyline
While staying at an Alpine ski resort, English mountain climber Mark learns that a fellow Englishman, a young climber, has perished on a nearby mountain, his body awaiting retrieval. Mark breaks the news to the dead man’s pretty young widow, Stella, before setting off to recover the corpse. The attempt to fetch the body is botched, the corpse falling from the mountain deep into a crevasse below, making it irrecoverable.
Movie vs Book

Year
1959
Minutes
30
Movie Rate
7.00
Source: IMDb

Year
1915
Pages
28
Book Rate
6.74
S: Goodreads
Book
The Crystal Trench
Author: A.E.W. Mason
Country: UK
First published in: 1915
Length: 28 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: The Four Corners of the World
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