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The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 American drama romance film based on the true story of ski racing champion Jill Kinmont. The film was titled A Window to the Sky in the United Kingdom. [3] In early 1955, Kinmont was the national champion in slalom, and was a top U.S. prospect for a medal in the 1956 Winter Olympics, a year away.
Jill Kinmont Boothe (February 16, 1936 – February 9, 2012) was an American alpine ski racer and schoolteacher. Her life story was turned into two major Hollywood movies The Other Side of the Mountain and its sequel The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2.
Marilyn Hassett (born December 17, 1947) is an American actress. [1] She is best known for playing the role of Jill Kinmont in the romance drama film The Other Side of the Mountain (1975) for which she received Golden Globe Awards and its sequel The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978).
Vincent Canby of The New York Times was not impressed: "The first film, directed by Larry Peerce, who also directed the spinoff, was a slickly prefabricated bathtub of movie sentimentality, at the heart of which was a gallant young woman facing real handicaps. 'Part II' is really a 30-minute postscript to that story, blown up to feature-length ...
In the mid-1950s, Werner was romantically linked to ski racer Jill Kinmont, and was played by actor Bill Vint in 1975's The Other Side of the Mountain, a biography of Kinmont's life that focused on her tragic injury in January 1955 which led to their eventual breakup.
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Peerce's subsequent theatrical features included The Sporting Club, A Separate Peace, Ash Wednesday, and The Other Side of the Mountain. He directed the television movies The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974), and Elvis and Me (1988), and directed several episodes of the children's television series The Ghost Busters a.k.a.
An all new reality show from CBS that puts contestants through a grueling physical journey with the chance to win some money will come to screens this month. "The Summit" premieres Sunday, Sept ...