I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)

"Till I found you"

A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.

Date of release
1951-02-17
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Henry King

Casting

Interesting facts

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain is a 1951 Technicolor religious drama film directed by Henry King, produced by Lamar Trotti and starring Susan Hayward and William Lundigan. The screenplay was written by Trotti based the 1910 novel A Circuit-Rider's Wife by Corra Harris about a minister and his wife in southern Appalachia.

Production

The film was shot in Dawsonville, Georgia, in the Appalachian Mountains, an unusual and obscure location. Other scenes were filmed in the Georgia towns of Sautee-Nacoochee, Demorest and Cleveland.

On May 31, 1950, Hayward was nearly killed when she slipped at Amicalola Falls, which she had been photographing during a break from production. William Gray, a studio chauffeur, caught her and they escaped with only minor injuries.

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