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crunch
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Jul 26, 2007 - 02:50pm PT
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OK, so it's not Hollywood, and it's actually pretty damn good, especially for its time, but worth mentioning, as it's way off of most people's radar:
The Edge of The World
A British movie made in 1937, which has some hairy climbing sequences--no digital effects back then--on some wild Scottish sea cliffs.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0028818/
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Jul 26, 2007 - 03:20pm PT
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Locker, I have seen The Mountain. I saw it in Montana when we only could get one snowy channel. I think I liked it. Especially the part where the cavalry arrived just before the buffalo were driven off the cliff.
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Jul 26, 2007 - 03:49pm PT
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Remember the part where the guy says, "Turn the light off and I'll eat it", and she says, "Fool! You bite that lightbulb, you cut yo mouf".
I think she got rope burns from a bad belay. Dim bulb she was.
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Jul 26, 2007 - 03:55pm PT
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Yeah, where he borrowed the jeep and was driving although he only had one arm. That was on Mt. Blackrock, I think.
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Jul 26, 2007 - 05:03pm PT
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Maybe you're right, Locker. I may have been overcome by the fumes from that Elmer's Glue I was using that night.
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LongAgo
Trad climber
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Jul 26, 2007 - 05:13pm PT
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Interesting Charlie D says a movie spurred him into starting to climb early on, complete with clothesline. Makes one wonder about the power of film to stoke passion for the mountains and interest in climbing.
As relayed on my web site introduction (tomhiggins.net), it was The White Tower (1950, Glen Ford, Claude Rains, etc.) which got me going. While only an OK movie, it had stunning shots of the alps and climbers in action there which inspired me to buy the first hemp rope, army surplus pitons and carabiners and head for Stony Point with friend Bud (Ivan) Couch.
For a time, we flopped around without the benefit of classes or books and somehow survived. Then, Bob Kamps came along one day, took us under his wing and the rest is, as they say, history.
Tom Higgins
LongAgo
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jul 26, 2007 - 05:15pm PT
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I'm squarely with GunksGuy in the first 20 posts...if you haven't seen "Take It to the Limit," you haven't SEEN what can be done to climbing. It has pretty much maxed out the potential on that--especially when you consider what the particular rocks they filmed on (at Donner) are really like.
Possibly the best part (aside from where the rubber snake leaps out from a rock and bites the climbing bad-boy in the neck) is when the lead character sees the local climbing "hard-guy" working out on his climbing structure. NOT to be missed!! Rush to your local off, off, off-Hollywood and Vine video store, and snag a copy! Go! Scoot!!
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Jul 26, 2007 - 05:26pm PT
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Hmmm! Actually Locker, I was gonna guess it was "The Gods Must Be crazy" or "Dracula VS Billy the Kid".
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2007 - 07:46pm PT
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Even before I saw TGMBC I thought the Bushmen of the Kalahari were pretty cool in terms of surviving a harsh environment, but then I saw Anthony Bourdain visit and eat fire baked goat rectum and a lot of the romance went out of THAT lifestyle.
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Domingo
Trad climber
Ann Arbor, MI
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Jul 26, 2007 - 08:19pm PT
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The Eiger Sanction is great, as is Scream of Stone.
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