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Hollywood climbing movies

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Jim Fox · · Westminster, CO · Joined Jun 2014 · Points: 50

What are the best Hollywood movies about climbing, in your opinion?

FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276
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This should get you started on your search (probably not all Hollywood movies)
Jim Fox · · Westminster, CO · Joined Jun 2014 · Points: 50

"The North Face" and "Touching the Void" were really good.
I also like "The Eiger Sanction" (I know.....)
"K2" was disappointing and "Vertical Limits" not great.
"Cliffhanger".....what can you say?

Any other major motion pictures about climbing anyone liked?

Paul Merchant · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 10

1956 "The Mountain" with Spencer Tracy

Fat Dad · · Los Angeles, CA · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 60

I remember liking Banner in the Sky as a kid (Disney movie based on a James Ramsey Ullman novel).

Jim Fox · · Westminster, CO · Joined Jun 2014 · Points: 50

Forgot about "The Mountain"- a classic.

Another Disney film- "Third Man on the Mountain", circa 1959

Fat Dad · · Los Angeles, CA · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 60

Thinking about it, I think the Third Man on the Mountain was Disney's take on Banner in the Sky. James MacArthur (Dano from Hawaii 5-0) was the lead.

The Mountain is a good flick, but more because of Spencer Tracy than the actual climbing. Never bought him and Robert Wagner as brothers though.

Jim Fox · · Westminster, CO · Joined Jun 2014 · Points: 50

Don't remember who was in it but Third Man on the Mountain was about a guy climbing the mountain his dad died climbing...

DesertRat · · Flagstaff, AZ · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 196

"Lonely Place to Die"

Bill Kirby · · Keene New York · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 480

Not climbing movie but skiing and Nazis? Heros of Telemark is da bomb!

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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