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Judith leaves him because she feels that he should sell High Tor, as the profits would provide for their future. Van Dorn is under pressure to sell his real estate, and, at the same time, is having doubts about his impending marriage to Judith (Nancy Olson). “Crosby portrays Van Van Dorn, who owns a mountain (“High Tor”) near the Hudson River on the Tappan Zee.

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The plot of the movie is very similar to the Broadway counterpart and is as follows: At one point, Crosby and Olsen exclaim, “the Nanuet bank’s been robbed!” and at another segment Crosby reminisces his work at “the Chair Factory” (the Empire Chair Factory, which was just recently demolished) and compares it to Sing Sing across the Hudson River. Haverstraw and several local legends and sites are mentioned by name dozens of times in the film by Nancy Olsen and Bing Crosby. Segments of the movie are shot in Haverstraw and at High Tor Mountain. Because of this, “High Tor” is considered the first made-for-TV movie in history. Because Bing Crosby was used to shooting movies on film and was not familiar with live television broadcast, he demanded “ High Tor” be conventionally filmed and then broadcast over television. This was Julie Andrews film and television debut. It has been said that, “Bing Crosby had seen Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend (in which she was still appearing at the time), and invited her to appear in the film”. The film starred Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Hans Conreid, and Keenan Wynn. On March 10, 1956, the CBS network presented “High Tor” as part of its “Ford Star Jubilee” evening movie. This is further complicated by the introduction of the ghosts of the Dutch crew of Hudson’s lost ship “Onrust,” with a resulting duel of wits between the conflicting groups.” Complications arise from a bank robbery in a neighboring town and the appearance of the robbers on High Tor. Van Dorn meets Judith, who wants him to leave High Tor and live in New York, but this he does not wish to do. Van Dorn, young heir to High Tor, is about to lose his rights to a double-dealing firm of real estate men.

Now High Tor may meet with the same fate. Some years ago a company mined the mountain south, leaving only a false front. “Towering above the Hudson River stands a magnificent headland, High Tor, which has been known to river folk ever since Hudson first sailed up the river. The story, as told by the Dramatists Play Service, begins as follows: Anderson wove an intricate tale of bribery and the supernatural and eventually prompted the Palisades Interstate Park Commission to save the mountain from industry shovels. Traprock, now called Tilcon, had already tore down the peak directly south of High Tor. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, came to the aid of High Tor Mountain in 1936 when he wrote an immensely popular verse play of the same name, “High Tor.” The United States Traprock Company was interested in purchasing the peak at the time and planned to remove the rear side of the mountain for the aggregate it contained.

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