This week’s movie recommendation is The Eiger Sanction, from 1975 starring Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy.
Also check out this youtube video which I couldn’t embed. It’s better than the trailer above.
As the second video says, this movie was a bit of a flop. The climbing scenes are good, but some of the acting is a bit stilted. Parts of the movie are downright slow. What struck me as I watched this movie was the fact that even the beta male characters exhibit more masculinity than most men today. Sexism? By today’s standards, yep, plenty of it in this movie. Jokes at a homosexual character’s expense? Yep, that too. Negative reaction from the LTR while I was watching this movie? Check. My appraisal of said movie due to LTR’s reaction? Thumbs up!
