Respected Canadian director Donald Shebib--auteur of GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD (1970), the Canadian EASY RIDER--tries his hand at big, old-fashioned adventure. With its ultra-traditional narrative, easy masculine camaraderie, and uncomplicated wartime bonding, THE ASCENT feels like an artifact
of simpler, less cynical times.
Near the end of WWII, in a POW camp in British east Africa, a plucky band of Italians and the odd German are waiting out the inevitable in the care of a stiff-lipped British commander, Major Farrell (Ben Cross). Farrell's chief obsession is to climb nearby Mt. Kenya; his nemesis Franco (Vincent
Spano), a prisoner, is a world-class climber who spe...
Released:
1995
Rated:
PG
Length:
96 mins