Movies - Spencer's Mountain

Home > Listing Index > Movies > Spencer's Mountain

	Movies - Spencer's Mountain

Spencer's Mountain is a 1963 family film written, directed, and produced by Delmer Daves from a novel by Earl Hamner. The novel and film became the basis for the popular television series The Waltons, which followed in 1972. Differing from both the film and novel, The Waltons watered down many of the adult themes, including alcoholism and infidelity. Spencer's Mountain features the majestic scenery of Wyoming's Grand Teton mountain range, as photographed by cinematographer Charles Lawton in CinemaScope.

Plot

As the patriarch of a large and growing family, Clay Spencer (Henry Fonda) is fiercely independent, yet dedicated to his family. While he resists the influence of religion, he struggles to remain faithful to his wife Olivia (Maureen O'Hara), allow his son (James MacArthur) to attend college, and build a new home for his family. The film centers around the trials and tribulations of Spencers, a frontier family living in the Grand Teton Mountains of Wyoming.

Cast

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Spencer's Mountain ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Spencer's Mountain; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay