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Perilous Assignment

10.0 48 mins Documentary   Adventure   1959
Walt Disney Productions  
Director(s): Hamilton Luske

Release Date: 06 Fri, Nov 1959

"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows. The theme of the episode is the making of his next film, The Third Man on the Mountain, an adaptation of James Ramsey Ullman's novel Banner in the Sky, based on the true story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Walt Disney will not be limited to a simple promotional making-of. He offers to meet exceptional people, including the French mountain guide Gaston Rébuffat. The latter will show climbing techniques and then reveal breathtaking images of his ascents of steep cliffs with a client for the ascent of Mont-Blanc, filmed for the occasion. In 1958, Walt Disney will therefore offer him to be deputy director on the high mountain scenes of the film "The Third Man on the Mountain".

Casts of Perilous Assignment

Gaston Rébuffat

as Self - Guide

Walt Disney

as Self - Host

Maurice Baquet

as Self - Guide's Client

Michael Rennie

as Self

James MacArthur

as Self

Janet Munro

as Self

James Donald

as Self

Fred Zendar

as Self

Herbert Lom

as Self

Ken Annakin

as Self

Hermann Geiger

as Self

Nora Swinburne

as Self

Lee Patterson

as Self

Ferdy Mayne

as Self

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