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...screen, a sort of Tom Sawyer in the Alps. Based on James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky, the film describes the Alpine adventures of a teen-aged Swiss village boy (James MacArthur) who vows he will be the first climber to reach the top of the Matterhorn (known in the script as The Citadel) or die in the attempt as his father died before him. He joins the expedition of an English mountaineer (Michael Rennie) as a porter, and at the climax of the attempt discovers the long-sought passage to the summit...
...villain (Herbert Lorn), a sneery guide from the neighboring valley who sneaks off in the predawn darkness to beat him to the top? The last reel of the picture finds him chasing the wretch up what purports to be (but obviously is not) the sheer east face of the Matterhorn, in an exhibition of freehanded folly that made one old Alpinist who saw the picture snicker and inquire: "Why not do it on roller skates? It's just as safe...
Most of the climbing scenes will in fact seem preposterous to anyone who has ever done 50 honest feet of Felskletterei. But to the average tree shinnier, for whom this picture is intended, they will surely look authentic and awesome. For the rest, the scenery (Matterhorn, Riffelhorn, Monte Rosa) is as spectacular as any Switzerland can show, and Hero MacArthur, in real life the son of Actress Helen Hayes, is the most wholesome-looking juvenile since...
Maybe for the customers; but canny Producer Disney has been reaping more tangible rewards. Since the opening, his dazzling, 61.2-acre carnival has taken in $48 million. Says one associate proudly: "We keep plussing things." This year's plusses: a $1,500,000 miniature Matterhorn, 146½ ft. tall, complete with bobsleds and "glacier grottoes"; eight "authentic, air-conditioned submarines" (cost: $65,000 each) to carry passengers past the lost continent of Atlantis; a graveyard of sunken ships; a miniature polar icecap; the first operable monorail system in the U.S., built at a cost...
...tour of Walt's kiddie wonderland that will take in his model of the Matterhorn. a bobsled ride, a ride on a monorail, and the park's newest gimmick: a "Submarine Voyage Beneath the Seven Seas...