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Top of the Hill

  • TV Movie
  • 1980
  • 4h
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
61
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Wayne Rogers in Top of the Hill (1980)
ActionDrama

Michael Stone is a rising company executive decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team to partake in the 1980 Winter Olympi... Read allMichael Stone is a rising company executive decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team to partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.Michael Stone is a rising company executive decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team to partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.

  • Director
    • Walter Grauman
  • Writers
    • Eric Bercovici
    • Irwin Shaw
  • Stars
    • Adrienne Barbeau
    • Sonny Bono
    • Peter Brown
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    61
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Walter Grauman
    • Writers
      • Eric Bercovici
      • Irwin Shaw
    • Stars
      • Adrienne Barbeau
      • Sonny Bono
      • Peter Brown
    • 7User reviews
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    Adrienne Barbeau
    Adrienne Barbeau
    • Elizabeth Stone
    Sonny Bono
    Sonny Bono
    • Bobby Antoine
    Peter Brown
    Peter Brown
    • McCain
    J.D. Cannon
    J.D. Cannon
    • Frank Langrock
    Macdonald Carey
    Macdonald Carey
    • Mitchell
    Rae Dawn Chong
    Rae Dawn Chong
    • Rita
    Denise DuBarry
    Denise DuBarry
    • Maria von Taub
    Mel Ferrer
    Mel Ferrer
    • Andreas Heggener
    Gary Lockwood
    Gary Lockwood
    • Dave Cully
    Carmen Mathews
    Carmen Mathews
    • Minna Ellsworth
    Richard O'Brien
    Richard O'Brien
    • Herb Ellsworth
    Paula Prentiss
    Paula Prentiss
    • Norma Ellsworth Cully
    Wayne Rogers
    Wayne Rogers
    • Michael Stone
    Elke Sommer
    Elke Sommer
    • Eva Heggener
    Janice Lynde
    Janice Lynde
    • Josie
    • (as Janice Lynne)
    Barry Snider
    • George
    Karen Berger
    • Karen
    • (as Karen Bercovici)
    Allison Carroll
    • Allison
    • Director
      • Walter Grauman
    • Writers
      • Eric Bercovici
      • Irwin Shaw
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    10hawkeye269

    one of those movies you wish you could see again

    Breathtaking scenery, incredible car scene driving on frozen mirror lake in lake placid, decent story line, great winter time movie. i wish i could find it on tape or dvd. if anyone owns a copy of this movie i would be interested in buying it
    lucyc702

    A fabulous Love Sory

    Wayne Rogers is just a living doll. He was beyond sexy in this most memorable film about a handsome,exciting,young daredevil. Adriane Barbeau was so good playing his most- unhappy wife...but in the end....after all of those women who wanted him so badly...She got her husband back,no thanks to Elke sommers....and the darling girlfriend of Sonny Bono...The Plot is quite simple yet so many emotions are set in motion in this Resort town in New York..I think this Ski Resort was the scene from one of the Winter Olympics? It is just so weird about Sonny Bono,after all he wasn't in that many movies and yet he played a Skiing expert and ironically its the way he died!. Well if you like a simple plot but yet manges to offer plenty of fun and and a few steamy scenes...well watch this movie "Top of the Hill"...you'll be glad you did!
    10giuliani-51013

    great memories as well

    Hi Barbara, my father was a driver on the set of that movie and I do have a ton of memorabilia from it! I have the cover of the script signed by almost the entire cast, including Sonny Bono...I am not sure if that is something you were looking for by my father passed away and a lot of this stuff just surfaced. We found head shots of Denise Du Barry, Craig Wassan (Signed) tons of pictures from the set etc...

    If you want me to scan anything in for you and email it you can email me @ giuliani21@gmail.com and I will be happy to do so. Also if you are interested in purchasing the original signatures, like I said, I have the whole cast plus a couple extra of Sonny Bono and Craig Wassan. I was barely 4 at the time of the movie but I remember my father bringing me up there! That place is absolutely fantastic!

    Anyway, if you need anything or want anything, let me know..
    9johnrlawrence-23898

    Car Scenes

    The one thing that stands out for me in this movie is Wayne Rogers character going into a Porsche dealer and buying a brand new 930 Turbo. I was in high school at the time and we could not talk about that car enough, quoting it's spec's, it's 0-60 time, it's price, it was the stuff of fantasies for kids that could only look forward to driving their parents 130 hp Chevy Citation. The scene of it flying over the frozen lake bed is "frozen" in my mind as well and I can almost recreate that particular scene from almost 40 years ago. Wish they would release a copy of this on DVD, I'd probably watch that scene 4 or 5 times a week.
    AdamSixties

    Wayne Rogers as Daredevil on Ski slopes..irony is Sonny Bono's supporting role

    The TV film aired in 1980 and I remember it well. Wayne Rogers is a daredevil married to Adrienne Barbeau who he separates from to hit the mountains (I think it was Aspen). He meets some horny women like the German Elke Sommer and has a friendship with a pianist Sonny Bono and has a one-night stand with Bono's girl (in one scene she takes her top off says "I don't want to be alone tonight" and goes into Rogers bedroom, Rogers eagerly following.)

    Rogers enters the suicidal slolum (or whatever it's called) race with an emotionally desparate partner. For Sonny Bono to be in this film about daredevils in self-danger makes his ski-accident death that much more ironic.

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    • Trivia
      John Wesley is the first and only to purposely crash a bobsled at full speed (to complete a film sequence). He drove the sled with the IMAX camera, tested all experiments for Excalibur Automobiles for N.B.C World News. He's instantly become a world record holder.
    • Connections
      Referenced in October Silk (1980)

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    • Release date
      • February 6, 1980 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Griff nach den Sternen
    • Filming locations
      • Lake Placid, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Operation Prime Time (OPT)
      • Paramount Television
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    • Runtime
      • 4h(240 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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