Survive! (film)

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Survive!
File:Survive Poster.jpg
Directed by René Cardona
Produced by René Cardona
René Cardona Jr.
Screenplay by René Cardona Jr.
Based on Survive! by Clay Blair
Starring Hugo Stiglitz
Luz María Aguilar
Music by Gerald Fried
Raúl Lavista
Cinematography Genaro Hurtado
Luis Medina
Edited by Marshall M. Borden
Alfredo Rosas Priego
Production
company
Avant Films S.A.
Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE)
Productora Fílmica Real
Productora Fílmica G.M.
Distributed by Paramount Pictures (United States)[note 1]
Release dates
January 15, 1976
Running time
111 minutes
Country Mexico
Language Spanish
English

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]

Premise

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

Reception

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

Notes

  1. 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.

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