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| writer =
| director = Gordon Hessler
| starring =
| music = Robert O. Ragland
| country = United States
| language = English
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| producer =
| editor = George Hively
| cinematography = Robert E. Collins
| runtime = 97 minutes
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| budget = $2 million[
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| network = NBC
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'High Ice', also known as 'Challenge of the High Ice',[ is a 1980 American adventure television film directed by Eugene S. Jones and starring David Janssen, Tony Musante, Madge Sinclair, and Gretchen Corbett. Its plot follows a park ranger and army lieutenant attempting to save three rock climbers stranded on a mountain ledge. The film was released in the United States as an NBC Movie of the Week in early 1980, but was given a theatrical release internationally. The extended theatrical cut of the film shown in foreign countries includes nude sequences that were excised from the television version.
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Premise
A park ranger (David Janssen) clashes with an army lieutenant (Tony Musante) regarding the rescue efforts of three rock climbers stranded on a mountain ledge in Washington.
Cast
Production
Filming took place in Darrington, Washington in the summer of 1980. The production budget was approximately $2 million.[
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Release
Upon its airing on NBC in January 1980, 'High Ice' was met by approximately 25 million viewers in the United States.[ The film was subsequently given a theatrical release internationally, with nudity which had been cut from the television version reinstated.][ The film aired on television again in the late 1980s on MTV.]
Critical responseJames Brown of the 'Los Angeles Times' deemed the film a "visually breathtaking, but dramatically stuttering diversion... Director Eugene Jones further hampers his own cause with some choppy transitions, confusing flashbacks and muddled dramatic focus."
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