Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Crystal Trench (TV)
1959 · Movie · 26 min. · United States
Stella Ballister (Patricia Owens) receives the horrifying news that her husband met with an untimely demise while mountain climbing. Newly married, Stella asks for the retrieval of her husband's body - but the task proves impossible when the corpse accidentally falls into a deep crevasse, where no human eyes or hands can reach him. Mark (James Donald), having feelings for Stella, stays by her side, a close friend and nothing more. Forty years later, still trying to get over the news of the accident, Stella learns that the glacier has moved. Hiring a crew to help prospect her husband out of the ice, they find the body preserved and untouched. Stella views the body of her husband one last time.
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast James Donald · Patricia Owens · Werner Klemperer · Ben Astar · Patrick MacNee · Frank Holms · Harold Dyrenforth · Eileen Anderson · Otto Reichow · Oscar Beregi · Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay A.E.W. Mason · Stirling Silliphant
Cinematography John F. Warren
Original title Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Crystal Trench (TV)
Also known as The Crystal Trench
6.5
139 votes (FilmAffinity)
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