The Crystal Trench (1959) Movie poster and book cover compared.

The Crystal Trench

Alfred Hitchcock, 1959

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The Crystal Trench
A.E.W. Mason, 1915

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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Movie Poster: The Crystal Trench (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

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Book Cover: The Crystal Trench (A.E.W. Mason, 1915)

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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

Poster of The Crystal Trench, the 1959 movie by Alfred Hitchcock

Year

1959

Minutes

30

Movie Rate

7.00

Source: IMDb

Cover of The Crystal Trench, the 1915 book by A.E.W. Mason

Year

1915

Pages

28

Book Rate

6.74

S: Goodreads

Book

The Crystal Trench

Country: UK

First published in: 1915

Length: 28 pages

Genre: Fiction

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