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Best Foreign Actor | 1957 | Spencer
Although playing brothers, Spencer Tracy was thirty years older than Robert Wagner in real-life. Tracy played Wagner's father in Broken Lance (1954).
The film was based on the 1952 novel "La neige en deuil" written by Henri Troyat. The novel itself was inspired by the Air India Flight 245 crash into Mont-Blanc, France, on November 3, 1950. The flight, a Lockheed L-749A Constellation Malabar Princess, carried forty passengers and eight crew on the Bombay-Cairo-Geneva-London route. It hit the face of the Rochers De la Tournette 4,677 meters (15,344 feet) on the French side of Mont Blanc, killing all on board. In 1966 Air India Flight 101 crashed in the same approximate area. In 2013, a climber found a cache of jewelry that is speculated to have been aboard one of these two flights.
Spencer Tracy was "on the wagon" (had stopped drinking) when he consented to do the film with friend Robert Wagner. On the way up to the resort where they were staying, their cable car malfunctioned, and they were stuck in the life-threatening situation for some time. That evening, the experience caused him to drink heavily and lose his temper. He threw a glass at the bartender. The glass didn't hit the man, but shattered and pieces of it cut Wagner's hand, which can be seen in the movie.
It's been felt by many that Tracy and Wagner should've played father-son, instead of brothers. Though men are known to father children (from different wives) decades apart, the film gives no mention/indication that they are half-brothers or anything.
Charlton Heston was originally intended for the part of Chris Teller.
"Father Belacchi: They're getting up a rescue party to climb the mountain. Zachary Teller: Why, if everybody's dead?"
"Zachary Teller: You're sweating! Thinking of the dead men's money is making you sweat! I blame myself. It's my fault for you being like this. Somewhere I must have done something wrong for you to be like this. Christopher 'Chris' Teller: You're not going to take me up there? Zachary Teller: [Shakes his head] I haven't climbed in ten years. That in itself would be enough if a man gets old... and besides, my hands are not as strong as they once were... and the mountain is against me. But all that there is, there's one thing more, the most important thing. It isn't right! Isn't there anything inside you that tells you it isn't right? You want me to take you up to the top of the mountain in the sight of God so you can pick the pockets of dead people? Does money mean that much to you? Christopher 'Chris' Teller: [Agrily] I'd do more than that to get out of here!"
