Storm Over Tibet

Storm Over Tibet
Directed by	Andrew Marton
Screenplay by	Ivan Tors Sam Meyer
Produced by	Ivan Tors Laszlo Benedek
Starring	Rex Reason Diana Douglas
Cinematography	George E. Diskant Richard Angst
Edited by	John Hoffman
Music by	Arthur Honegger Leith Stevens
Production company	Summit Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	July 1952 (1952-07)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Storm Over Tibet is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Rex Reason and Diana Douglas.

Plot

During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains.

Cast

• Rex Reason as David Simms
• Diana Douglas as Elaine March Simms
• Myron Healey as Bill March (as Myron Healy)
• Robert Karnes as Radio Operator
• Strother Martin as Co-pilot
• Harold Fong as Sergeant Lee
• Harold Dyrenforth as Professor Faber
• Jarmila Marton as Mrs. Faber
• William Schallert as Aylen
• John Dodsworth as Malloy
• Marcella Concepcion as High Lama (as M. Concepcion)

Production

The film used footage filmed by Andrew Marton of the 1934 International Himalayan Expedition led by Norman Dyrenforth, whose son Harold Dyrenforth played a character based on his father.^[1] Much of the footage appeared in Marton's 1935 Swiss-German film Demon of the Himalayas with some sequences reused by Columbia in their 1937 film Lost Horizon. Actor Rex Reason made his debut in the film telling an interviewer he was chosen for his role because the film needed an actor who could physically fit the shots of the previous actor who had died.^[2] Reason's 27 minutes of footage included climbing sequences filmed in an indoor studio using white painted corn flakes as snow.^[3]

Arthur Honegger reused some of his score from Demon of the Himalayas.

See also

• List of American films of 1952

References

1. p. 229 Pitts, Michael R. Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928–1982 McFarland, 12 Oct. 2010
2. http://www.classicimages.com/people/article_9eb3fc45-2366-5f89-88b6-f53e6cd71e26.html ^{[dead link‍]}
3. Weaver, Tom Rex Reason in Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews McFarland, 19 Feb. 2003

Bibliography

• Greene, Naomi. From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda: Images of China in American Film. Hong Kong University Press, 2014.

External links

• Storm Over Tibet at IMDb