ORIGINAL SCRIPT, HIGH CONQUEST, SIGNED by ACTOR MICKEY KUHN, MOUNTAINEERING FILM

HOLLYWOOD MOUNTAINEERING FILMS - HIGH CONQUEST. High Conquest - Screenplay by Max Trell Based On the Book High Conquest: The Story of Mountaineering by James Ramsey Ullman. Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures, 1946.

Original 102 mimeographed shooting script with blue rewrite pages. This script belonged to actor Mickey Kuhn with his pencil ownership signature on the front cover.

High Conquest is a 1947 American drama picture shot on location in Switzerland which was directed by Irving Allen and starring Anna Lee, Gilbert Roland, and Warren Douglas. The film tells the story of In 1932 at the Alpine Club in London, Colonel Hugh Banning recounts a fatal expedition to the Matterhorn in Switzerland thirty years before in which a local guide fell and brought down an American climber, both tumbling to their deaths.

Jeffrey Stevens, a chemist and the son of the American who fell is heading to visit his father's grave, but rejects any suggestion that he should climb the mountain. He meets an attractive pianist Marie who is returning home and the two hit it off. This provokes jealous from Hugo, the son of the guide who had died with Jeffrey's father decades before. Eventually Jeffrey is goaded into overcoming his fear of the mountain and taking part in a climb with Hugo, who tries to murder him at the summit. Some chipping to back covers and a few marginal tears, used script bradbound in printed studio wrappers.

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