The Eiger Sanction Disaster: Clint Eastwood's Deadliest Film Shoot 

I wouldn't be surprised if more people know of him from the dressing, after a point. Like, if you're not into films from when he was working, to you, he might primarily be the salad-dude.

Your right, he’s more known for the dressing at this point. But I also respect him for declining a gig that he knew he wasn’t built for. That takes courage, especially for men.

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Guess you're not familiar with Paul Newman then. Because that's exactly what he was. Actor and salad dressing mogul.

Idk, I think it's pretty hot garbage as a spy movie. It's not really a movie most people watch for the plot.

I thought is was a very good movie, so called critics be damned.

Really? It's terrible. He's an assassin with no gun silencer & then sticks his head out of the window. Climbs Eiger wearing a builders helmet. Script was poor and very little story.

Jemimah Brown

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly for me.

The 1st Dirty Harry was just epic.. That opening intro was just awesome.

That is such a good movie! It seems more like current times than any movies made today.

Photos of David Knowles are apparently not easy to find on the internet. That does look a lot like a young Reinhold Messner (many photos of him easily available, most with very abundant curly/wavy hair, but in that photo in the video it's shorter than he usually wears it). There are many write-ups about Knowles' untimely death, but I didn't see any photos close up enough to make out his face. Ueli Steck made it all look like child's play. The guy must have had some amazing metabolism as well as superb climbing - I have no idea what goes into it all, but judging from accounts of Fritz Weissner, perception and analysis are a huge part of it. Yet Steck made even Weissner look amateur. Funny - I had trouble recalling Fritz Weissner, and spent some time paging through famous mountaineer lists, and did not see his name. I saw a "Fritz" and that jarred my memory. Weissner was known for his precision and incredible memory of rock faces, a real hardass by some accounts, kind of a Hyman Rickover austerity. I did see a photo of Messner (clearly it was Messner) under some other mountaineer's name. For the Himalayas, clearly the Sherpa are far and away the best.

Messner.

It is Messner.

From a climbers standpoint, not a very good film

You fukt up homes

That sounds cool.

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@@bonefetcherbrimley7740 It's on You Tube, I'm watching it again now.

That sounds awful

@@bonefetcherbrimley7740 lol no, it sounds like a terrible plot. And Wagner was a terrible actor.

I had forgotten that scene until I was watching this and he was talking about the stone towers and then I remember the shots of Eastwood getting to the top and the helicopter camera shots out away showing the tower and it gave me vertigo just seeing those scenes. Lol Was very enthralling movie that my dad always made sure to watch when we saw it was going to be on schedule.

Yes… Climbing just keeps going up & up… 😉

You'll like it. Just remember it's Eastwood. In the 70s.

@@nomadmarauder-dw9re haha! I'll keep that in mind!!

Check out Thunderbolt and Lightfoot if you haven't seen that as well. Clint has always put out a good film but his work in the seventies was outstanding.

Doubtful Eastwood cares. He’s not the greatest person if you actually read about his sentiments towards people.

@@Tsumami__ Sure he's not a great dude, but even pricks care about some things. He's still human, he's not like, the literal devil.

"No" -Alec Baldwin

Some people can compartmentalize things like that and chalk it up to “he knew the risks”. He was probably more concerned with the financial repercussions

I grew up in the 80s. Knew about Clint Eastwood from Dirty Harry and his Westerns. Never heard about this mountain movie until much later, and only then because it was in reference to another one of the author's books, Shibumi.

I think it's pretty damned obscure, outside of the climbing world. I've had classes on Deadly Film Shoots...without this being mentioned. (Film Studies / Safety.) I'm also an Eastwood fan, and haven't heard of this either.

@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Out of interest I just checked on IMDB and it has over 20k votes, it's available on RU-vid Movies and BBC1 aired it one night a few months ago too. given the people involved in it, "Cult" seems more fitting....to me at least. Whatever we call it I highly recommend it, right from the opening shot it looks gorgeous.

@@ReclusiveDuck Usually, everyone's heard of a cult classic..."cult" just means most people hated it when it came out, or ignored it. I'm betting 19k of those 20k people - are climbing fans, or people who are old enough to see it when it came out, and remember it. (Many Clint fans will just see "every" Clint movie.) The problem with many films being remembered - did they ever get a DVD release? Or VHS? If the answer is no to either - chances are, only the people that saw it in theaters remember it. (And perhaps nobody born after 1980 do!)

@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking VHS, DVD, and now Blu-ray plus various streaming services, it's not as obscure as you might think. I don't think "cult" means people hated it, though that can apply to some films, it just means it wasn't a big success. Conversely, many films that were highly successful at the time don't age that well. Sometimes a film takes time to find an audience, a perfect example of that is E.T. vs The Thing. Both released about the same time, E.T. was a massive hit and The Thing was only mildly successful and kind of a cult film. Today The Thing is every bit as well known, possibly more so, and very highly regarded.

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There are a ton of plot holes and a lot of it just doesn't really make a ton of sense. The movie is great to just kind of turn off the brain to though.

Thanks Dan, happy Easter to you as well.

When I watch it, I just fast forward to the good parts. 😁

He climbed it on the much easier ridge.

No ,Steck did a variation on the Eiger North face and a more direct line. He got killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas..no surprise.

Better gear is huge. Modern aggressive ice axes, purpose built boots, well made crampons, light weight clothing, freeze dried food-it all combines to practically change every aspect of mountaineering. The early climbers were in wool suits, wearing boots with nails in them for more grip, tied together with hemp rope. If they wanted specialized stuff like pitons they usually had to make them themselves.

Confused me too, but maybe hia sources had Swiss-german names.

@@m.h.5400 Yeah that is a possibility. Didn't think about that. Switzer german lol.

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First recorded assent. FYI incan artifacts have been found at 20,000' mountain summits approximately. In South America.

@@larchman4327 What could be worth going all that way for? Religion, maybe?

@@Robocopnik see rock gotta climb

@@Robocopnik Why ask why??? Everybody in civilization is always asking "Why?" "Why?" and "What for?" and "Why?"... "HOW" is SOOOOoooo much more interesting!!! If you have even a drop of imagination, the difficulty is it's own reward! You climb it because "It's there."... hahahaha... ;o)

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Because it's interesting to wonder what they cared about, what they were willing to go so far to achieve.

I forgot sorry. I purchased the Summer of Katya after the initial four with high expectations. I was totally disappoint and threw the book away, I may have burned it. :(

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Kind of a fked up thing to parody considering there was a death. Disrespectful even.

@@MyDearGhoul No no! They did a parody of the film itself - the story of the Eiger Sanction, - not of the filming of it.

The Matterhorn has killed more people than the Eiger Nordwand; on average about 4 people die each year. Now-as percentages go...

I think had they embraced a bit more of the tongue in cheek thing, it would have been a better movie over all. It just takes it's plot and characters too seriously and would benefit by letting the air out a bit, so to speak, with some self deprecating humor.

If I remember correctly, the movie opens with Eastwood as a professor of art history. A female student approaches him after class and coyly asks if there is 'anything' she can do to improve her grade in the class. He smiles and asks her if she is doing anything later that evening. The student smiles and tells him 'no.'. He smiles and says "Then you'll have time to study tonight," and walks off. It was a great line.

To Summit

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