First in Line (1944)

A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.

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Irène Corday

Aline Lourtier

André Le Gall

Pierre Servettaz

Marcel Delaître

Ravanat dit « Le Rouge »

Jean Davy

Hubert de Vallon

Maurice Baquet

Boule

Yves Furet

Georges à la Clarisse

Geymond Vital

Maxime Vouillaz

Mona Dol

Marie Servettaz

L

Lucien Blondeau

Jean Servettaz

Andrée Clément

Suzanne Servettaz

T

Tosca De Lac

L'acrobate

Louis Seigner

Le docteur

Roger Blin

Paul Moury

E

Eugène Chevalier

Un guide

Guy Decomble

Warfield

Jacques Dufilho

Fernand Lourtier

Fernand René

Napoléon

Albert Duvaleix

L'oncle Dechosalet

Jérôme Goulven

Un guide

M

Marius David

M

Madhyanah Foy

Pierre Collet

Un guide (uncredited)

Richard Francœur

M. Faroule, un dineur (uncredited)

C

Claude Martin

Luc, un guide (uncredited)

F

Frédéric Moriss

Un majordome de l'hôtel Alcazar (uncredited)

Alain Nobis

Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel Alcazar (uncredited)

C

Claude Péran

L'alpiniste qui veut grimper le Mont-Blanc (uncredited)

Jean-Marc Thibault

Un pensionnaire des Servettaz (uncredited)

François Viguier

Un villageois (uncredited)

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