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CLIFFHANGER – Trevor Jones
THROWBACK THIRTY
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
One of the silliest, but most enjoyable, action adventure movies of the early 1990s was the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Cliffhanger – aka the film that put many people off mountain climbing for life. Sly plays Gabe Walker, a park ranger and expert mountaineer working in the Colorado Rockies. Walker is left traumatized after the wife of his best friend Hal (Michael Rooker) falls to her death during an ill fated rescue; he plans to retire and tries to convince his girlfriend, fellow ranger Jessie (Janine Turner) to come with him. However, his plans for a quiet life are put on hold when they receive a distress call from the mountain, and Gabe and Hal set off to help – only for them to discover that the distress call was a fake placed by Eric Qualen (John Lithgow), a psychopathic British former military intelligence officer, now the leader of the gang of thieves trying to rob $100 million from the U.S. Treasury. Their plane has crashed on the mountain, and the money is scattered all over the area, and Qualen wants Gabe to retrieve it for them. The film was directed by Renny Harlin and was a major box office hit in the summer of 1993. Read more…
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