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| After a harrowing plane crash, a Special Forces officer and his combat dog find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.
Heart of the Beast
| After a harrowing plane crash, a Special Forces officer and his combat dog find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.
On Behalf of My Son
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| At 75, Vicentina faces the death of her son, a bus driver who caused a tragedy by plunging off a viaduct. As the investigation suggests possible suicide, she seeks out the victims' families to offer her apologies.
The Last Photograph
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| An ex-DEA agent searches South American mountains for his murdered diplomat siblings' children, aided by a junkie photographer who saw the killers, confronting past demons as reality blurs in remote wilderness.
The Black Ball
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| Across three distinct eras, the intertwined lives of three men remain bound by a shared thread of desire, sexuality, enduring pain and the lasting weight of their complex legacies.
The Mountain
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| The Mountain is a breathtaking classic Hollywood survival thriller starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner in a deadly climb through the Alps. Steve Hayes revisits Edward Dmytryk’s suspenseful mountain adventure, filmed on location in Switzerland and filled with spectacular climbing sequences, family conflict, and old Hollywood star power.
When a passenger airliner crashes high in the Alps, two brothers set out to reach the wreckage. Spencer Tracy plays the seasoned mountain climber who knows the dangers ahead. Robert Wagner is his handsome, ruthless younger brother, a social climber with reasons of his own for reaching the plane. What begins as an impossible rescue mission becomes a harrowing struggle between heroism, greed, and survival.
In this episode of Tired Old Queen At The Movies, Steve celebrates one of Spencer Tracy’s most gripping performances and Robert Wagner at his gorgeous, despicable best. He also looks back at Claire Trevor, William Demarest, E.G. Marshall, and Anna Kashfi, along with The Mountain’s breathtaking VistaVision and Technicolor photography.
And the danger wasn’t confined to the screen. Steve tells the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner stranded thousands of feet above the Alps in a gondola accident, Tracy’s difficult years with Katharine Hepburn, and Wagner’s memories of the legendary actor who took him under his wing and taught him what it meant to be a professional.
For fans of Spencer Tracy movies, Robert Wagner movies, classic Hollywood, 1950s movies, mountain climbing films, survival thrillers, old Hollywood stories, and classic movie reviews, The Mountain delivers suspense from beginning to end.
It’s harrowing, heartwarming, spectacular to look at, and the perfect classic movie to beat the summer heat.
If I Go Will They Miss Me
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| In Watts, California, a 12-year-old boy attempts to connect with his distant father following his incarceration while sensing mysterious visions, from airplanes and Greek gods, that seem to follow him through his everyday world.
Fjord
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| An immigrant Romanian family living in Norway is subject to an investigation and faces the scrutiny of the local judicial system.
Her Private Hell
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| A troubled young woman searches for her father as a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity. Her quest collides with an American G.I. who's on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from hell.
A Talent for Murder
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| A mysterious young man from a New York publisher is sent to Switzerland to persuade the renowned writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of the Ripley anthology.
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