Gelo nas Alturas

Was just up there & remembered seeing this movie. Trying to find it again to watch.

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Essentially a TV movie star our beloved Dr. Kimble was too aged by its time by excessive tobacco use and also by alcohol abuse, he seemed to near ten years older, therefore we can ensure this was his last movie at your carrier.

Janssen plays a park ranger to led a rescue of some untrained climbers struck at high mountain at Washington State, when he finally reaches at base operation one chopper already crashed on recue attempt, worst he has to be dealing with a selfish Army Officer, he decides landing on the top and get off by rope to save them, by human mistake he falls down at edge broken his leg, even so he tried hard save one of the girl stranded nearby.

Technically speaking this small budge flick has a ton of crucial missteps, it becomes into a true nightmare for the audience, as the chopper wrongly and dangerously trying reach at mountain's wall that fatally went to crash, Janssen trying reaches by the top once more their "skilled"crew committed a fatal mistake, to be worsen the Pilot played by Dorian Harewood also put in jeopardy his chopper in high-risk attempt to rescue them, where nobody dared or even wasn't trained for, anyway a kind of disaster movie carried out by a high-trained crew members, thus what's we expecting for?

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.25.

I picked this very boring movie up for less than a buck on VHS . . . and I paid too much for it!! David Janssen, Tony Musante & Dorian Harewood are all decent actors -- and they try very hard here -- but this made-for-TV film is just excruciating to watch. The rest of the cast is horrible -- especially the "actors" who get stranded on the mountain -- and half the footage is helicopters just hovering around. Horribly dated and completely useless flashbacks do nothing except add to the film's running time, a very long 97 minutes. Pretty terrible direction and even worse editing just sink this production.

The Vestron Video VHS print (which this was) might be a theatrical version of the film: there's brief nudity during the flashbacks. (The nudity doesn't help add any interest either!)

Thank God for the fast forward button on my remote.

It was a pretty good way to while away 2 hours on the tube, especially after having participated a little in its production: the UH-1 Iroquois helo which crashed in the mountains was assembled in, staged at & delivered from Green Valley Airport in Granite Falls, WA where I lived...not very far from michellegreen_6, another reviewer here. I got to meet none of the talent but Dad and I did get to help a bit with assembly. And then off it went, to its fiery theatrical doom, which I witnessed several months later on TV. It was the biggest thrill this town got since they filmed "Joyride" there in '76-'77. It was the talk of the town the day after the movie showed. Mostly good reviews, very few negative ones.

I lived in the small town when they made this movie. The name of the town is Darrington Washington. They filmed the mountain scenes in our high school gym. I met all the actors it was great. The movie was a good movie. Now of course with all of the technology we have it seems to be old school. I loved it though. I would like to get a copy of this movie because we did not get one when it was released. The little boy was great but after meeting the actors in this movie it was awesome to see them in the movie. I lived a few houses down for where the kept the helicopter after it was blown up. I hope more people enjoyed the movie as much as I did.