Sean Connery stars in the story of a forbidden love and lethal romantic triangle set in the Swiss Alps and directed by multiple Academy Award winner Fred Zinnemann (High Noon, From Here To Eternity, A Man For All Seasons, Julia). Switzerland 1932. A Scottish doctor (Connery) shocks the guests of a small alpine inn when he registers with his wife, who is half his age. There for a mountain-climbing vacation, the doctor hires a young guide to train his bride. From the first, an attraction develops between the guide and his young charge. And as their friendship grows, the guide learns that the doctor is married to another woman. Now, as the doctor and the young guide scale the sheer rock face of an alpine mountain, how far will each go to win a battle for the same woman ... and who has seduced whom during the Five Days One Summer.
