The Eiger Sanction (1975 Clint Eastwood)

Early thriller stuff doesn't seem to mesh with mountaineering in muddled screenplay, which takes forever to get to the sodding Eiger, where our friend Guy Neithardt helped train the actors to climb. He reported that the crew were extremely hard working and professional, as was the director, and that George Kennedy was a big softie with impeccable manners.

Lovely photography by Frank Stanley sensibly in deep focus, spectacular footage in Monument Valley and Switzerland, early score from John Williams. With Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Bruhl.