Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

Directed by

Charles Frend

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows Robert Falcon Scott and his team as they travel to the South Pole in 1912. It shows their difficult journey and the extreme conditions they face.

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What happens

Scott of the Antarctic is a 1948 British adventure film starring John Mills as Robert Falcon Scott in his ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole. The film more or less faithfully recreates the events that befell the Terra Nova Expedition in 1912. The film was directed by Charles Frend from screenplay by Ivor Montagu and Walter Meade with "additional dialogue" by the novelist Mary Hayley Bell (Mills' wife). The film score was by Ralph Vaughan Williams, who reworked elements of it into his 1952 Sinfonia antartica. The supporting cast included James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Barry Letts and Christopher Lee. Much of the film was shot in Technicolor at Ealing Studios in London. Landscape and glacier exteriors were shot in the Swiss Alps and in Norway. Background scenes were shot in the Antarctic islands. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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