GME GEM 18 - Cool It Down with a SWISS TOUR
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Real life accomplished athlete Cornell Wilde (A SONG TO REMEMBER, 1945) plays klutzy on the slopes of Zermatt, and clumsy in the grip of love, squeezed between Josette Day (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1946) ) and Simone Signoret (LA RONDE, 1950).
GME recently discovered a connection between the current CERVO Mountain Resort in Zermatt, Switzerland as the original location for director Leopold Lindtberg’s post-World War II holiday romp in the Alps.
“The one who catches him is the winner.”
“It is 10 degrees below”
“It’s no colder than your heart. If you can stand it for me to freeze to death, I can.”
FILMING SWISS TOUR at what is now the cERVO Mountain Resort in Zermatt, Switzerland
The DVD edition of this film originates from pristine nitrate film elements that GME discovered in warehouse storage in the New York metropolitan area. The Cinémathèque suisse acquired and preserved this material, and the restored film was shown at the Locarno Film Festival in 2007. GME subsequently collaborated with Praesens Film to produce this digital edition. This DVD is accompanied by an original essay by scholar Yvonne Zimmermann about SWISS TOUR, Praesens Film, and the larger cultural context in which these films were produced, together with an introduction by archivist Jon Gartenberg about rediscovering the film. Bonus materials include newsreels about American servicemen in Switzerland, the arrival of the movie stars for the filming of SWISS TOUR, and behind-the-scenes production footage in full view of the Matterhorn.
“Au Revoir.”