Jeremiah Johnson

[kgd]

Quest for Fire

Apocalypto - new but nice!

caste away - I really, really, really HATE Tom Hanks (cause the other character in Bosom Buddies was actually the talented one) but this was pretty darn good

Blue Lagoon - well not very good movie.....but Brook Shields was really hot - at least when I was 12 I remember she was smoking hot

Crocodile Dundee - the first one - yeah its pretty darn good!

Adaptation - it has its survival moments - the jungle swamp in the end is awesome!

Bridge Over River Kwai - the survival mentailty

 

[BarberFobic1992]

I am Legend makes me want to prepare for the zombie invasion

 

[DOC-CANADA]

Quest for Fire

Apocalypto - new but nice!

caste away - I really, really, really HATE Tom Hanks (cause the other character in Bosom Buddies was actually the talented one) but this was pretty darn good

Blue Lagoon - well not very good movie.....but Brook Shields was really hot - at least when I was 12 I remember she was smoking hot

Crocodile Dundee - the first one - yeah its pretty darn good!

Adaptation - it has its survival moments - the jungle swamp in the end is awesome!

Bridge Over River Kwai - the survival mentailty

Again, kgd, excellent choices. How can I forget Crocodile Dundee, one of my favourite movies of all time. And Castaway was pretty decent.

Doc

 

[Rotte]

Dersu Uzala

Good film, but I liked the book better: Dersu The Trapper


I think it is re-print -- link to Amazon.

 

[Oakietree]

Thanks for naming all these movies, guys! I just queued them up for downloaded through Open Source torrents! (Couldn't get Dersu Uzala.) Hard to find older good English language movies here!

Stitchawl

Check Torrentz dot com. I am downloading it now.

 

[jdhoward315]

A little update:

I remember a film where a family are out yachting and there's a stowaway street kid. Something happens where the boat crashes and they have to survive in a Northern Canada or Alaska maybe New Foundland type area. Think the film was maybe 80s but not sure. It just came up in conversation with a friend after I started this thread. Neither of us can remember much more about the film, is it ringing any bells with anyone on here?

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm also kind of using this as a shopping list for Xmas. The girlfriend for once will be getting me stuff I want and can use

This film is called "Ship wreck", it is a continuatoin of the mountain family robbinson series. Another great film no one seems to mention is "Last of the Dogmen" with Tom Berringer. Highly reccomend this film. He plays a tracker hired to go into the OxBow and retrieve some escaped convicts, but finds they have been slaughtered. He goes back into the wilderness to try and find out what happened to them and discovers an indian tribe who fled to the mountains in the late 1800's to preserve their way of life.

John

 

[stitchawl]

Check Torrentz dot com. I am downloading it now.

Thanks, Oakietree! These sites are goldmines of old movies and TV shows.

Stitchawl

 

[Trent Rock]

Come on guys!!!
Wus up??!!!
No love for Denver Pyle!!??

Who would play them in a modern version?
Joe Don Baker and John Goodman??
Christopher Walken would make a great Mad Jack

That Vardis Fisher book was really good :thumbup:

A good "fictionalized" story on Hugh Glass is called The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
http://www.amazon.com/Revenant-Novel-Revenge-Michael-Punke/dp/0786711892

I really liked the cinematography in Black Robe

Across the Wide Missouri is a good book too
I didn't know there was a Clark Gable movie (AND Ricardo Montalban!)

Death Hunt is Chucky Bronson's best movie EVER .
Period
End of story

 

[Buffalohump]

If you enjoyed Deliverance, check out the book by James Dickey. Great stuff.

He also wrote another awesome survival story called To the White Sea, about a bomber pilot who is shot down over Japan in WWII.

I know you guys would enjoy that one too.

 

[LeeCQC]

This film is called "Ship wreck", it is a continuatoin of the mountain family robbinson series. Another great film no one seems to mention is "Last of the Dogmen" with Tom Berringer. Highly reccomend this film. He plays a tracker hired to go into the OxBow and retrieve some escaped convicts, but finds they have been slaughtered. He goes back into the wilderness to try and find out what happened to them and discovers an indian tribe who fled to the mountains in the late 1800's to preserve their way of life.

John

+1 for Last of the Dogmen. Man, that is a good movie. When I first watched that movie, it made me want a blue heeler so bad I couldnt stand it.

 

[tholiver]

"Rogue Male" starring Peter O'toole is another sort of survival movie.
Haven't seen it anywhere on dvd though.
Every few years A&E digs it out and plays it.

 

[RoyalM]

Seem to remember this film being a childhood favorite, haven't seen it in ages so will have to see how well it stands up now:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078215/

 

[Liam Ryan]

Another vote for the Last Trapper.

A great SHTF book is Alas Babylon, of the 6 I ordered off amazon it's by far the best,
and an online pdf book called "Lights Out" author halfast, about a community that bands together when the SHTF. Free and well worth it.
World War Z and the zombie survival guide, both by Max Brooks also highly entertaining.
Robinson Crusoe is a great book, too bad the new show is garbage.
For an easy, good read, get any of the Gary Paulson "Brians" books, starting with hatchet. Great for the kids.
A few books on my wish list at amazon are the Dies The Fire series from SM Stirling, and Tunnel in The Sky by Robert Heinlein.

 

[j williams]

I remember a movie bout a vietnam vet who lived in the mountains with some other vets, I think it had tom beringer in it. Anyone know what im talkin bout?

 

[quietmike]

I remember a movie bout a vietnam vet who lived in the mountains with some other vets, I think it had tom beringer in it. Anyone know what im talkin bout?

Don't remeber Tom Beringer being in it, but it sounds like Distant Thunder.

 

[JD Mandrell]

Don't remeber Tom Beringer being in it, but it sounds like Distant Thunder.

Yep, Distant Thunder with John Lithgow and Ralph Macchio.

A son tried to reconnect with his troubled Vietnam Vet father who's living with other "bush vets" in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.

Not a bad movie.

 

[Gerberblades]

I watched this film as a kid and recently got a copy. The same goes for Death Hunt with Charles Bronson. These were the films that first sparked my interest in outdoors and every few years I like to watch them to kind of stoke the fire in me to go out and really enjoy the woods and hills around me.

I was wandering if there are other films of this type that I should be watching? I don't intend to use these films for instructional purposes more just to enjoy a look back at, for me, a better age.

So if you know a film that fits the bill then post it here please. I'd also be open to some good books to as i'm always needing another book to read next to a camp fire. Something maybe with a bit of history and a story in it. While I really enjoy a Ray Mears book I was looking for something a little more informal and fun.

The Naked Prey (1966) with Cornel Wilde is an exciting flick. Kind of like Bear Grylls without the rules. Very little dialogue but a lot of action.

For urban survival, The Omega Man with Charlton Heston is a cult classic. A good one to get some friends over to watch with your favorite beverage.

 

[A. G. Russell]

A man called horse was a short story by Dourthy M Johnson, she also wrote the man who shot liberty valance and lots of other great stuff.

 

[quietmike]

A few more

Cold River
The Silence of the North
Clan of the Cave Bear

And I'm sure The Road will be a great movie if they ever get around to releasing it.

 

[Wildone39]

There was one with Kevin Bacon where he took some boys up in the mountains to camp. He was a real dick, I remember he fell off a cliff or somethin and the boys had to get him out. Cant remember the name for the life of me....

White water Summer