Fall from Ski Lift Scene?
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jawsfan — 19 years ago(July 19, 2006 11:46 PM)
ah. Maybe I just need to watch it again then. It's more than likely a VHS transfer. It did have the scene where the Snowbeast shows up at that sports convention or whatever it was my memory of the movie isn't too good, I only watched it once because I didn't like it too much. It didn't show the monnster NEARLY enough (2 shots!!!!!)
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hardstuff1000 — 19 years ago(January 02, 2007 11:41 PM)
"The National Broadcasting Company decided it would be a little violent to have a skier fall from the ski lift and break a leg and then become a victim to the Snowbeast. In this scene it was were the Winter Games took place. Writer Joseph Stefano and director Herb Wallerstien changed the scene to have the Snowbeast attack the town's gymnasim were they are holding a skiing contest for the snow champions. The fall from ski lift scene appears in some other versions of this film."
From the Alternative version link. -
muffinpup — 18 years ago(March 02, 2008 02:34 PM)
This is weird but I seem to remember this movie or one similar? Where I heard, at the time that one of the actors fell on his ski pole but survived, during the making of the film. Was it this movie or another, does anyone know?
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richard.fuller1 — 13 years ago(June 15, 2012 02:37 PM)
According to IMDB here, Clint Walker himself suffered a skiing injury at one time where his heart was pierced by a skiing pole. Surely not during this movie.
And the only fall from a ski lift I have ever seen in a movie or show was Dinah Shore's appearance probably Here's Lucy, where Lucy jumps because the lift is stalled and she lands in the embankment of snow.
Other than that, Avalanche, with Mia Farrow and Rock Hudson, there was actually a rather drawn out scene of a guy and a kid holding onto the ski lift and the kid finally jumps to the safety net but before the guy can, the cables electrocute him and he falls.
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mazinz — 13 years ago(December 09, 2012 12:25 PM)
I have a few of the public domain dvds that all run roughly around 86mins. However I just transferred the old big box vhs release from World vision. That ran a full 90 mins. I did a quick skim and did not see the fall from chair lift scene (the winter carnival is present in this one). But I need to do a true side by side- as it is possible this version was slowed down so it would run 90 mins when in fact it is the same as the 86 min version, or this actually has something some of the other versions don't (perhaps the chair lift scene).
I was doing errands while it was copying to disc but can confirm at least one scene on this vhs that was cut short from the Legacy dvd- when Ellen Seberg is skiing right before the carnival scene and it shows the best heading towards her, the vhs shows this scene fade to a red, whereas the legacy disc does not fade and clearly is cut short since the beast's roar carries over into the carnival scene.
Either way if this ski lift thing exist it might be in here somewhere and will full verify one way or the other
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richard.fuller1 — 13 years ago(December 09, 2012 12:30 PM)
This movie is up on youtube. I've already sat and looked over it, basically what I recall from 30+ yrs, the beast was never shown full face until the very end.
Truthfully, I don't recall a ski lift scene here in this one. What good would a ski lift killing do with a large lumbering monster? It isn't going to be able to ride or shimmy the cables, and people looking down at the monster. would have been way too suspenseful back then, and we didn't have that. -
mazinz — 12 years ago(January 22, 2014 07:21 PM)
only took me 2 years but I can now confirm that the 90 min (worldvision big box clamshell) vhs version I have does have a few scenes missing from most of all the 85-86 min prints. It is not the chair scene but rather normal dialog shots that were either shortened or missing entirely from most versions (for example-after it is made to look like Gar's wife gets attacked, most prints then cut to the setting up the gym for the carnival scene. In this vhs version we get about a 1 min extra scene of the Grandma asking Tony to meet Jennie's (the first skier that dies in the film) parents at the airport and it is learned they still have not told them how she truly dies. it then cuts to the gym scene). So in the end it does really have 4 mins making it a full 90 mins
So far this is the longest version of the film I have ever come acrossWOOO
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chris-hardie77 — 10 years ago(June 21, 2015 01:35 PM)
I still can't figure out why they cut these scenes for the later vhs/dvd releases, because it's not like they are simply filler.. They explain important parts of the film.. For example, 1 scene explains Tony's absence from the Gymnsium attack sequence, whilst another 2 short scenes show that Gar is genuinely worried about his wife's dissapearance whilst skiing. Very strange that they were cut for later releases..