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Started by Bill, Mar 27 2005 08:58 PM

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#1 Bill

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 08:58 PM

Its funny that people actually made movies about ski lift failures:

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Plot Summary for Ski Lift to Death (1978) (TV)

A sports promoter tries to matchmake for a pair of ski champions and as a result, they end up trapped in a derailed ski-lift car, along with a gangster and the hitman sent to kill him.

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 03:57 AM

As a kid, I asked my mom to rent me Tightrope to Terror after I saw that it involved a ropeway. I haven't been able to find it since, I'd really like to see it again! Basic plot summary, if I remember correctly, is 3 kids are in a bicable pulse and an airplane doing stunt maneuvers flies too close. The cabins derail and fall to the snow (I think?) but the fall is slowed by the haul rope. They get rescued from the snow.

Actually, that sounds incredibly predictable and not altogether exciting. :) There must have been more to it.

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 09:01 AM

There was another movie with Rock Hudson that had a skilift gondola that hit a tower and was derailed and they had to save the people before a tragedy hit. Couldn't find it on imdb at all.
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 09:23 AM

Could it have been this?

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 08:01 PM

No I dont think so, I thought so at first, but the avalanche never happened in this movie.
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Posted 31 August 2005 - 06:36 AM

Hey All

Great movie to see some shots of older lifts is called the Snowball Express. It's an old Disney flick I watched years ago about a family trying to start their own ski resort. I think it was made in the early 70's. Worth checking out.
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Posted 19 November 2005 - 12:23 PM

I saw snowball express!!! Jesus I am gettin' old!!!. (thats how most ski area's got started for real by the way)Well to show I am not a dinosaur yet the new spider man movie has a very computer animated New Jersey Tram getting attacked. (flying bullwheel in background)
I would like to offer my affordable consulting services for the next Hollywood lift related extravaganza! Hell thier remaking the posideon adventure!

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Posted 19 November 2005 - 12:45 PM

View Postarialropewaymillwright, on Nov 19 2005, 01:23 PM, said:

I saw snowball express!!! Jesus I am gettin' old!!!. (thats how most ski area's got started for real by the way)Well to show I am not a dinosaur yet the new spider man movie has a very computer animated New Jersey Tram getting attacked. (flying bullwheel in background)
I would like to offer my affordable consulting services for the next Hollywood lift related extravaganza! Hell thier remaking the posideon adventure!



Yup - the "traction-loss-runaway" would make for great viewing! Just kidding.

"the new spider man movie has a very computer animated New Jersey Tram getting attacked. (flying bullwheel in background)"

I hail from South Orange - so where's the tramway already? 95% of that state is paved!
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Posted 20 November 2005 - 07:51 AM

"Where Eagles Dare" has an exhilirating scene in which US Troops in WWII take this castle that is only accesible by tram. There are fight scenes on it and it eventually goes down.

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Posted 22 November 2005 - 02:18 PM

Wasn't there an aerial tram in the orginal "Blob"? I seem to remember some people trying to escape up the mountain in a Tram car and the blob grabbing a hold of the bull wheel and stopping the lift. Come to think of it, they weren't to bright trying to escape in a reversable ropeway. Kind of like those dumb kids who try to spit on you when your sitting on your sled under a tower. Like I'm not going to be there at the top when they get there.

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Posted 22 November 2005 - 03:44 PM

Barnstormer, are you thinking of one of those old James Bond movies with Jaws being the guy that stopped the aerial tram?
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Posted 22 November 2005 - 05:08 PM

View Postbarnstormer, on Nov 22 2005, 03:18 PM, said:

Wasn't there an aerial tram in the orginal "Blob"? I seem to remember some people trying to escape up the mountain in a Tram car and the blob grabbing a hold of the bull wheel and stopping the lift. Come to think of it, they weren't to bright trying to escape in a reversable ropeway. Kind of like those dumb kids who try to spit on you when your sitting on your sled under a tower. Like I'm not going to be there at the top when they get there.

That's why they are called kids - no smarts!! And they are shocked as hell when you are waiting for them!
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Posted 22 November 2005 - 05:21 PM

Its not about lifts but I watched the 1984 flick "Hot Dog" last night on TBS. It was a good film for the time and was entertaining, but I wouldnt rush out to find it.

This post has been edited by poloxskier: 22 November 2005 - 05:21 PM

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Posted 23 November 2005 - 08:26 AM

What are you talking about. That was my favorite movie in the 80's and I own it on DVD. Ok Ok Ok... it was because of Shannon Tweed. Guilty as charge...

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Posted 23 November 2005 - 09:08 AM

I wasnt aware that it had made it onto DVD.
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Posted 23 November 2005 - 10:21 AM

View PostBill, on Nov 23 2005, 08:26 AM, said:

What are you talking about. That was my favorite movie in the 80's and I own it on DVD. Ok Ok Ok... it was because of Shannon Tweed. Guily as charge...

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I have it too. It still is good for laughs now and again.



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Best line of the movie, imo.

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Posted 23 November 2005 - 10:41 AM

And don't forget the DREADED CHINESE DOWNHILL!!!

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Posted 23 November 2005 - 01:50 PM

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009OWJ...&s=dvd&v=glance

Bought mine at amazon.com

Complete with nude Shannon Tweed...
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Posted 23 November 2005 - 04:08 PM

I think I've got the an old studio press kit for the movie stuff somewhere in a file box, including a picture of Shannon Tweed. I'll have to dig it up...

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Posted 26 November 2005 - 09:16 AM

I remember many years ago one of the TV stations was doing reruns of the old "Lassie" series which was filmed (I'm supposing) in cooperation with the US Forest Service. The "Danger Mountain" (09/18/66) episode shows the main character and "Lassie" inspecting a ski area. It's during the summer and the owner and forest service guy are the only ones at the resort. They ride up the lift with it free running on it's own, they get off and then the owner is injure by a falling tree. While they ride down the lift, it stops and the forest service guy has to "hand-walk" the haul rope from his chair to the nearest tower and then walk down and re-start the lift.

It's pretty campy by today's standards but it's fun to watch none the less. I think the lift was Riblet but I'm not sure. I also think in the show they run the lift on a internal-combustion engine. If anyone has seen this more recently then their details would be better than mine. It's been about 12-13 years since I last saw this episode.

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