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The Other Side of the Mountain Reviews

1975
1 hr 41 mins
Drama
PG

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Story about skier Jill Kinmont (Marilyn Hassett) and her battle against paralysis. Dick: Beau Bridges. Audra-Jo: Belinda J. Montgomery. Jane: Nan Martin. Bill: William Bryant. Dave: Dabney Coleman. Buddy: Bill Vint. Lee: Hampton Fancher. Pittman: William Roerick. Cookie: Dori Brenner. Dean: Walter Brooke. Larry Peerce directed.

The heroic tale of real-life skier Jill Kinmont (played by Hassett), whose 1956 Olympic hopes were shattered when she took a paralyzing fall in Utah's Snow Cup race. The movie takes you through Hassett's depression over her fate, her break-up with her fiance who can't accept her paralysis, and her romance with Bridges and how he helps her fight back to go on to become a grammar school teacher in California. In the end Bridges, a daredevil pilot, is killed in a plane crash, and Hassett must accept his death. Sequel: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN PART TWO. The tune "Richard's Window" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, was nominated for a Best Song Oscar.