What a horrible, horrible piece of crap

I never saw the movie, but the book was shocking to read. These guys had to decided every day if they want to live. If in their mind they decided they could not live any longer, they would go to sleep and never wake up. That is hard core survival.

What also was interesting was that the true leaders, the ones with the real inner strength, weren't the leaders on their soccer team, it was a couple of the team members who weren't the stars. When it came down to survival, the true leadership qualities surfaced in those who had it them deep inside somewhere. They had the strength it took to hold everything together, including the decision to eat the unthinkable.

Survive was made on a small budget in latin America and then picked up for distribution in USA & Canada by Paramount in 1976. The film was altered slightly, new music soundtrack added and the film was dubbed into English. It's not great, but it's not horrible. Strange that it never made it onto video or DVD as it did very well when it played at the theatre. Survive occasionally appears on TV in a badly cut "network" version which was prepared for broadcast in the late 1970's (all blood & gore removed).

Not any more or less embarrasing than 'Alive!'. This actually told more of the story. NEITHER tells all.




**Skin that Smokewagon and see what happens!** Tombstone