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🎵"Have you heard about dear Blanche? Got caught up in an..."🎵! Well all I can say is lucky old Blanche! Somehow there is something almost allegorical about the avalanche in the film and the career of a star that is also tumbling down the mountain. Rock Hudson is millionaire "Sh…
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Avalanche
“Six million tons of icy terror!”
36%
Movie
1h 34m
AI Analysis
Avalanche (1978) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Avalanche (1978) — a movie tagged as Action, Adventure, and Drama with balanced tone moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers. Our models also surface themes such as survival from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~94 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Avalanche 36% (74 votes) — polarizing or niche appeal for this movie.
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36%
from 74 TMDb votes
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Synopsis
After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1978-09-29
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- TMDB rating
- 3.6
- TMDB ID
- 166680
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What is Avalanche about?
After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.
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How long is the movie Avalanche?
The official runtime for Avalanche is approximately 94 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Cast
Rock Hudson
David Shelby
Mia Farrow
Caroline Brace
Robert Forster
Nick Thorne
Jeanette Nolan
Florence Shelby
Rick Moses
Bruce Scott
Steve Franken
Henry McDade
Barry Primus
Mark Elliott
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Cathey Paine
Tina Elliott
Jerry Douglas
Phil Prentiss
Antony Carbone
Leo the Coach
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Peggy Browne
Annette River
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Pat Egan
Cathy Jordan
Joby Baker
TV Director
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X Brands
Marty Brenner
- C
Cindy Luedke
Susan Maxwell
- J
John Cathey
Ed the Pilot
- A
Angelo Lamonea
Bruce's Coach
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Jessica Biscardi
Skier (uncredited)
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🎵"Have you heard about dear Blanche? Got caught up in an..."🎵! Well all I can say is lucky old Blanche! Somehow there is something almost allegorical about the avalanche in the film and the career of a star that is also tumbling down the mountain. Rock Hudson is millionaire "Shelby" who has invested his last cent in a mountain retreat that he hopes will offer a wonderland of facilities to his guests. Needless to say, he invites the great and the good to the opening and that includes his mother (Jeanette Nolan); "Caroline" (Mia Farrow) and the rather more wary "Nick" (Robert Forster) who suspects that the construction clearing has left the place rather more vulnerable to the elements than he would have liked. Well guess what? He's right - else we'd not have had a movie. Now that might have been no bad thing as we spend about eighty minutes building up to what is, admittedly, not a bad five minutes of nature saying "I've has enough of this"... The pace is all over the place, Mia Farrow contributes almost zero to the thing and the polo-neck clad star looks totally out of sorts with a mediocre script and a plot that the title rather gives away. I suppose it was a disaster movie waiting to happen, but this is completely devoid of any sense of menace and ends rather as a damp squib. It's rated 15... Perhaps that's the maximum IQ required to watch? Some classy, chilly, photography but otherwise I wouldn't bother, sorry.
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