The Doomed Battalion (1932)
81 min
Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian mountain guides take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides in the same area in the Dolomites, fighting to conquer the same high pass (Col Alto). When the war is over, they meet again. Their friendship has survived the war. American version of the film Berge in Flammen. It uses some scenes from the original German-French version. There is a third version of the film titled Les Monts en Flammes, shot the same year in French.
- Release date
- April 30, 1932
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Luis Trenker as Florian Di Mai
- Tala Birell as Maria Di Mai
- Albert Conti as Captain Kessler
- Victor Varconi as Artur Franchini
- Henry Armetta as Angelo
- Gustav von Seyffertitz as Austrian General
- C. Henry Gordon as Italian General
- Gibson Gowland as Innerhofer
- Herman Bing as Austrian Soldier
- Claus Clausen as Leutnant Kall (edited from Berge in Flammen)
Crew
- Cyril Gardner · Director
- Karl Hartl · Director
- Luis Trenker · Director
- Karl Hartl · Writer
- Patrick Kearney · Writer
- Luis Trenker · Writer
- Carl Laemmle Jr. · Producer
- Giuseppe Becce · Composer
- Charles J. Stumar · Cinematographer
- Clarence Kolster · Editor
- Maurice Pivar · Editor