High Ice

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While this movie is wonderful on its own, nothing can compare to the performance of Zack Lewis, the 5 year old boy who played Glenco MacDonald. His performance stunned me and inspired me to perform myself. The fact that he is not listed in the IMDB credits is a crime. Watch this movie and look closely for little Zack...you'll have to look closely, but I promise that it's worth it! Wherever you are Zack, thank you for this moving and timeless performance.

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.

Keeps you totally involved. Top disaster-rescue. Musante plays his military role especially well. Top performances by Janssen, the lady doctor and the helicopter pilot as well. All kinds of different permutations arise in the rescue process so that's what keeps you very attentive and involved. The filming of this movie looked dangerous because of the intense mountain climbing and helicopter maneuvers being performed. There is some psychological/character study/sentimental angle covered which is necessary to humanize the whole thing, but it is the drama of the rescue itself that you are mainly involved with. Very impressive.

This movie was one of the first few US movies authorized to be shown in China after the establishment of foreign diplomatic relationship between the People's Republic of China and the United States in 1979, after a three-decade long hostility between the two countries.

The movie was really an eye-opener for the Chinese audience, as well as the Chinese movie industry, mainly because of the way some scenes were shot. In particular, the scene where the characters were falling down was filmed in the way that it appears the filming crew was falling with the characters, thus creating a realistic impression of point of view from the characters themselves. As a result, there was a few Chinese audience with heart problems had to be carried out from movie theaters after they passed out, resulting from seeing these tense falling scenes. After several incidents like this occurred when this film was shown in China, some Chinese theaters banned patients with known heart problems from seeing this film, for fearing that they might have heart attack again.