
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Clayboy's schoolteacher impresses upon Clayboy the following phrase, "The world steps aside to let a man pass, if he knows where he is going"
118 min
Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia. He is overjoyed when he learns his eldest son will be the first Spencer to attend college, if he can resist the charms of a pretty local girl and rustle up the money for tuition.
- Release date
- May 16, 1963
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Henry Fonda as Clay Spencer
- Maureen O'Hara as Olivia Spencer
- James MacArthur as Clayboy Spencer
- Donald Crisp as Grandpa Zubulon Spencer
- Wally Cox as Preacher Clyde Goodman
- Mimsy Farmer as Claris Coleman
- Virginia Gregg as Miss Parker
- Lillian Bronson as Grandma Spencer
- Whit Bissell as Dr. Campbell
- Hayden Rorke as Colonel Coleman
Crew
- Delmer Daves · Director
- Earl Hamner Jr. · Writer
- Delmer Daves · Writer
- Delmer Daves · Producer
- Max Steiner · Composer
- Charles Lawton Jr. · Cinematographer
- David Wages · Editor