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Hanging by a Thread is a 1979 television disaster movie starring Sam Groom about friends stranded in a disabled cable-car above a ravine. The occupants of the cable car reflect on the past as the film flashes back and forth to show each of the character's lives.
May 8, 1979 · Hanging by a Thread: Directed by Georg Fenady. With Sam Groom, Patty Duke, Joyce Bulifant, Oliver Clark. A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Georg Fenady
- 1979-05-08
Sep 26, 2022 · (Made for TV Movie) A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car. Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Sam Groom, Patty Duke, Joyce Bulifant, Bert Convy, Donna Mills
Terrified sightseers await rescue as their disabled tram car dangles over a treacherous mountain gorge.
- Matt Brunson
- Mystery & Thriller, Action
- Georg Fenady
Irwin Allen, filmdom's "disaster master," strands a party of friends in a disabled sightseeing tram dangling above a mountain gorge to sweat out a rescue while reliving (through flashbacks) past jealousies, simmering conflicts and forgotten secrets as the cable begins snapping wire by wire.
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A three-hour-plus TV movie about eight people stranded in a cable car has no right to be this good. Review by Michael Looke ★★★ Better than average TV disaster flick from genre master Irwin Allen.
