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Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
DVD release poster
Directed by
George Butler
Produced by
Scott Swofford
Written by
Mose Richards
Crystal Spijer
Narrated by
Kevin Spacey
Starring
Michael Gambon
Conrad Anker
Iain Fraser
Music by
Sam Cardon
Cinematography
Reed Smoot
Studio
WGBH Films
Distributed by
Cinegate
Release date(s)
February 10, 2001 (2001-02-10)
Running time
40 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$15,553,324[1]
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure is an IMAX film about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton between 1914 and 1917. Directed by George Butler, the film was released in February 2001 and was narrated by Kevin Spacey. It documents Shackleton's journey aboard the Endurance and was the follow-up to Butler's previous film, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Critical reception
5 References
6 External links
[edit] Plot
In 1914, Shackleton set out to walk across the whole of Antarctica. While the South Pole had already been discovered, people had yet to make the cross-continent trek on foot. Before making landfall, however, his ship became trapped in the ice-flow of the Weddell Sea where he and his crew stayed for over 400 days.[2]
[edit] Cast
Kevin Spacey - Narrator (voice)
Michael Gambon - Sir Ernest Shackleton (voice)
Conrad Anker - Himself
Reinhold Messner - Himself
Stephen Venables - Himself[3]
[edit] Production
The film was shot on location in Antarctica and also utilizes footage taken by the original expedition photographer, Frank Hurley.
[edit] Critical reception
The film received "Two Thumbs Up" by Ebert and Roeper.
Rotten Tomatoes suggests it is "a gorgeously made film tracking the explorer's legendary 1914 expedition to the icey, uninhabited continent."[4]
Joe Leydon, in Variety, suggests, "Despite its brevity, "Adventure" vividly conveys the character and courage of Shackleton, one of the last great champions of the Heroic Age of Adventure. Butler glosses over a few unpleasant details in this telling of the storyfor the sake of school-aged sensibilities, he was requested to refrain from showing how crewmen were forced to kill sled dogs for foodbut the story remains gripping nonetheless."[5]
[edit] References
^ "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2001/0SHCK.php. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
^ Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure. George Butler, director. WBGH Boston & White Mountain Films, 2001.
^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280105/
^ "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shackletons_antarctic_adventure/. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
^ By. "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure". Variety.com. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117797435.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=Endurance%3AShackleton%27s. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
[edit] External links
The film's official page
White Mountain Films
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure at the Internet Movie Database
v  d  eImperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
People
Weddell Sea party
William Bakewell  Perce Blackborow  Alfred Cheetham  Robert Clark  Tom Crean  Daniel Gooch  Charles Green  Lionel Greenstreet  Ernest Holness  Walter How  Huberht Hudson  Frank Hurley  Leonard Hussey  Reginald James  Alexander Kerr  Alexander Macklin  George Marston  Timothy McCarthy  James McIlroy  Thomas McLeod  Harry McNish  Thomas Orde-Lees  Lewis Rickinson  Ernest Shackleton  William Stephenson  John Vincent  Frank Wild  James Wordie  Frank Worsley
Ross Sea party
Aboard the Aurora: Sydney Atkin  Emile d'Anglade  C. Adrian Donnelly  Arthur Downing  Charles Glidden  S. Grady  Lionel Hooke  William Kavanagh  Alfred Larkman  Clarence Maugher  William Mugridge  Aubrey Ninnis  James Paton  Harold Shaw  Joseph Stenhouse  Leslie Thompson  A. "Shorty" Warren  Edward Wise Shore party: John Cope  Irvine Gaze  Victor Hayward  Andrew Jack  Ernest Joyce  Aeneas Mackintosh  Richard W. Richards  Arnold Spencer-Smith  Alexander Stevens  Ernest Wild
Other
James Caird  Ole Aanderud Larsen  Luis Pardo
Places and vessels
SY Aurora  Caird Coast  Cave Cove  Elephant Island  Endurance  Fortuna Glacier  King Haakon Bay  McDonald Ice Rumples  Mount Worsley  Peggotty Bluff  Stromness, South Georgia  Stromness Bay
Events and parties
SY Aurora's drift  Ross Sea party  Voyage of the James Caird
Other
Mrs. Chippy  The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000)  Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001)  Shackleton (2002)
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