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Adam & Yves (1974)
This is one gay male film that is NOT all male! Read on...
Adam and Yves contains what is, I believe, the last film footage of Greta Garbo used in a commercial film... filmed from a high angle as she was on one of her famous New York walks. The footage is brief - it is otherwise what I would imagine to be a relatively tame gay male porn film (back when they were on film, not video, and there were scripts, dialogue, and direction).
If you're a Garbo fan this is an interesting piece of film to see - shot in the days when she was like a marathon walker with the energy of a woman half her age. Difficult to find - it was apparently available on video tape at one time - but worth a look only for the short reminiscent Garbo scene.
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997)
Paper Thin & Simply Awful
Jon Krakauer did a good job of describing the Everest climb in which he participated and which was a fatal disaster for a dozen of those who were with his team.
The book was probably the most popular and best-selling mountaineering tale of all time. Readers of the book who watch this made-for-TV movie should be forewarned that the movie not only attempts to chronicle the disaster but is, in itself, a disaster. The movie is perhaps a greater disaster for those who never read Krakauer's book - the editing leaves one wishing for a guide, the acting leaves one wishing for a dinner theatre musical, and the overly trite 'messages' that the movie pounds into the viewer ("be prepared", "you can't always be prepared for disaster", "respect the mountain") left me wishing for a quick ice axe to the forehead.