‘I’d Climb the Highest Mountain’: Grief Must Give Way to Gratitude

As a young couple moves to a mountain village, their towering faith helps them overcome sorrow.

Rev. William Thompson (William Lundigan) and his wife Mary (Susan Hayward), in "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain." Twentieth Century Fox

NR | 1h 28m | Drama | 1951

Grief is a part of being human, but obsessive grief can make people subhuman. That’s the point of this film set in early 20th-century rural Georgia.