Survive! (film)
Survive! (Spanish: Supervivientes de los Andes - Andes Survivors) is a 1976 Mexican thriller film directed by René Cardona.[1] The film was released on January 15, 1976 in Mexico and is based on the 1973 book Survive! by Clay Blair, which is based on the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.[2][3]
| Survive! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | René Cardona |
| Screenplay by | René Cardona Jr. |
| Based on | Survive! by Clay Blair |
| Produced by | René Cardona René Cardona Jr. |
| Starring | Hugo Stiglitz Luz María Aguilar |
| Cinematography | Genaro Hurtado Luis Medina |
| Edited by | Marshall M. Borden Alfredo Rosas Priego |
| Music by | Gerald Fried Raúl Lavista |
Production companies | Avant Films S.A. Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE) Productora Fílmica Real Productora Fílmica G.M. |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (United States)[note 1] |
Release date | January 15, 1976 |
Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Languages | Spanish English |
Premise edit
A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism.
Cast edit
- Hugo Stiglitz as Francisco
- Norma Lazareno as Silvia
- Luz María Aguilar as Mrs. Madero
- Fernando Larrañaga as Madero
- Pablo Ferrel as Raúl
- Leonardo Daniel as Carmelo
- Sara Guasch as Mamá de Silvia
- Gloria Chávez as Mujer que va a boda (as Gloria Chaves)
- José Elías Moreno as Rodrigo Fernández
- Capitan Carlos Camacho as Pilot
Reception edit
The New York Times gave a negative review for Survive!, calling it "an irksomely dubbed film of rudimentary exposition with a sometimes tinny musical accompaniment".[4] Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars, saying, "In most movies featuring a lot of blood and cuts and close-ups of festering wounds and all that, the typical audience laughs to break the tension (horror movies almost always play as comedies). With Survive! though, the audience tends to be a little more sober, a little more thoughtful. Maybe that's because we realize that underlying this rather dumb, uninspired, even crude film is a true story of such compelling power that we're forced to think and respond."[5]
Over the Labor Day weekend 1976, the film opened in Chicago and grossed $1,060,000 from 63 theaters which propelled it to number one at the US box office.[6][7]
See also edit
- Alive (1993)
- Society of the Snow (2023)
Notes edit
- ^ As with the U.S. distribution of Survive! (1976), Paramount Pictures later distributed in Alive (1993), except in the United States and Canada, where it was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under the studio's adult-orientated Touchstone Pictures banner.
References edit
- ^ Villa Roiz, Carlos (1997). Popocatépetl: mitos, ciencia y cultura : un cráter en el tiempo. Plaza y Valdés. p. 336. ISBN 9688564885.
- ^ Dolores Tierney, Victoria Ruétalo (2009). Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America. Routledge. pp. 160, 163, 166–167. ISBN 978-0415993869.
- ^ Hofler, Robert (2010). Party Animals. Da Capo Press. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-0306816550.
- ^ "The Screen: 'Survive!'". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (September 6, 1976). "Survive!". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved October 31, 2020 – via RogerEbert.com.
- ^ "'Survive' Smash $1,060,000, Chi; 'Bodyguard' Tall 22G, 'Wine' 17G". Variety. September 8, 1976. p. 14.
- ^ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety. September 15, 1976. p. 9.