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Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.
Jerry Brouer
- Van Royen
- (as Jerry Brouwer)
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- TriviaSir Sean Connery once described this movie's location work as "the most audacious piece of filmmaking I've ever been involved in. It was film production at the point of pioneering." Connery once recounted the worst moment he experienced while making this movie. Connery had to make a three hundred meter (three hundred twenty-eight yard) walk alone down a glacier known to be laden with crevasses hidden by a fresh snowfall and without safety markers. The marker poles were present during rehearsals, but were not there during filming, as they would be seen in the shot. Connery said, "Inches on either side of the path there were ninety foot caverns. I could hear the sound of ice moving underneath me, and behind me in the peaks, shifting all the time. That's the loneliest walk I've ever taken."
- Alternate versionsFred Zinnemann edited 11 minutes from this film for its 1987 CBS television network premiere.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The King of Comedy (1982)
- SoundtracksAlexander's Ragtime Band
Composed by Irving Berlin
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The good points - beautiful scenery, and some viewers might appreciate the insight into mountain climbing in the 1930's.
Bad points - the flashbacks are tedious, the ending obvious (to this viewer anyway)and - apart from Connery, who plays himself, as always - the acting uninvolving. And personally I don't care much about mountaineering in the 1930's, and this film didn't do anything to quicken my interest.
There are some surprises, but I feel the movie really lacks from characters whom one can care about: in particular Betsy Brantley, who plays Kate, seems desperately out of her depth here.
I found it to be pretentious and glacially slow. I'd rather have that ninety minutes of my life back.
Bad points - the flashbacks are tedious, the ending obvious (to this viewer anyway)and - apart from Connery, who plays himself, as always - the acting uninvolving. And personally I don't care much about mountaineering in the 1930's, and this film didn't do anything to quicken my interest.
There are some surprises, but I feel the movie really lacks from characters whom one can care about: in particular Betsy Brantley, who plays Kate, seems desperately out of her depth here.
I found it to be pretentious and glacially slow. I'd rather have that ninety minutes of my life back.
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- Fred Zinnemann's Five Days One Summer
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- $17,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $199,078
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $43,891
- Nov 14, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $199,078
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