Ein verpfuschter Raub in der Luft führt dazu, dass Koffer voller Geld von verschiedenen Gruppen in den Rocky Mountains gesucht werden.Ein verpfuschter Raub in der Luft führt dazu, dass Koffer voller Geld von verschiedenen Gruppen in den Rocky Mountains gesucht werden.Ein verpfuschter Raub in der Luft führt dazu, dass Koffer voller Geld von verschiedenen Gruppen in den Rocky Mountains gesucht werden.
- Für 3 Oscars nominiert
- 1 Gewinn & 12 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Stuart
- (as Don Davis)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesThe film is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the costliest aerial stunt ever performed. Stuntman Simon Crane was paid $1 million to cross once between two planes at fifteen thousand feet, without the aid of any safety devices or trick photography. The insurance company refused to insure a stuntman for this, so Sylvester Stallone offered to reduce his own fee for the movie by the amount that the stunt cost to produce, in order that the film could be made. The stunt was filmed in the United States, as such a stunt is illegal in Europe, where most of the film was shot. Crane couldn't actually get inside the second plane, but good editing gives the appearance that he does.
- Patzer(at around 30 mins) The plane crashes in the mountains, and appears to have stopped half way off a cliff. When people leave the plane, the plane is fully on the ground.
- Zitate
Hal Tucker: Delmar, from me to you, you're an asshole.
Delmar: Yeah? And you're a loud-mouth punk slag, who's about to die.
Hal Tucker: Maybe. But in a minute I'll be dead, and you, will always be an asshole. So Go Ahead And Shoot
[mockingly]
Hal Tucker: I'm Getting Cold... SHOOT
Delmar: [grabs Hal by the collar...] Who's Shooting?
[and head-butts him]
- Crazy CreditsEnd credits include a message which explains that the Black Diamond harness used in the opening scene was specially modified so that it would fail.
- Alternative VersionenBritish cinema and video versions were edited for violence to achieve a 15 certificate with the video/DVD versions being more extensively cut by the BBFC (losing 1 minute 24 secs in total). Most of the cuts were made to punches and kicks during the fight scenes although the underwater shooting scene was also considerably altered (the uncut version shows Travers being hit by Stallone's pitons). The complete version has been broadcast on Sky's movie channels. The cuts were fully restored in the 2008 Optimum DVD release.
- VerbindungenEdited from Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991)
It was back then that Gabe in an attempt to save her life lost his best friend Hal Tucker's, Michael Rooker, girlfriend Sarah's, Michelle Joyner, grip as she was dangling some 4,000 feet above ground level when her security belt gave out! With Sarah's tragic death and his friend Hal holding him responsible for it Gabe just dropped out of sight not willing to face or see anyone for over eight months.
Now in town to get back with his girlfriend mountain ranger Jessie Deilghan, Jennie Turner, Gabe suddenly finds himself face to face with arch-enemy Hal Tucker as he's reluctantly recruited to save a number of people lost in the high Rockies after their plan crashed. What no one realizes is that the persons trapped in the snow are a gang of skyjackers who sky-jacked a government plane with over 100 million dollars in denominations of $1,000 dollar bills! It's the skyjackers headed by former US Government Intelligence Agent Eric Qualen, John Lithgow, who want Gabe and Hal to find the cash,in three large suitcases, that they lost during the failed skyjacking attempt!
****SPOILERS**** It takes a while for both Gabe & Hal as well as Jessie to figure out what Qualen & Co. are really up too but that's after all three ended up getting captured by Qualen and his gang. It's Gabe who escaped, wearing only a t-shirt and pair of torn up pants, and made it to safety who had to save his fellow mountain rescuers Hal and Jessie's lives depended on the Qualen Mob getting the lost money which Gabe was threatened or better yet blackmailed to find. But in what we soon see how Qualen & Co. interacted with each other, by murdering themselves over the slightest mess-up, it's a given that as long as the cash is not recovered that will assure that both Hal & Jessie will remain alive!
***MORE SPOILERS*** Great action scenes with both Gabe & Hal really getting worked over by Qualen and his thugs but still having enough left to finally put them out of commission. Incredible final sequence with Gabe & Qualen having out on a disable helicopter hanging by a string, or cable, on the side of a one mile high mountain. Gabe who in all reality should have died from the beatings he's taken as well as the bitter cold, wearing only a wet and unfrozen t-shirt, was able to turn the tables on Qualen at the very last moment. In the end Qualen ended up with his fellow hijacked for all intents and purposes dead and buried in the snow. And as for the 100 million dollars in $1,000.00 dollars bills that Qualen & Co. was after: It ended up burned shredded and blown away to the four winds where,in the high snow covered and impassible Rockie Mountains, no one would ever find it!
- sol-kay
- 25. Nov. 2011
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Sylvester Stallone's Most Iconic Roles
Sylvester Stallone's Most Iconic Roles
Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsländer
- Sprache
- Auch bekannt als
- Cliffhanger
- Drehorte
- Monte Lagazuoi, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Belluno, Veneto, Italien(footbridge scenes, and final scenes with the helicopter fight)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 70.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 84.049.211 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 16.176.967 $
- 30. Mai 1993
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 255.000.211 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 53 Minuten
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.39 : 1