Vier zivilisationsmüde Großstädter starten das Abenteuer ihres Lebens. Sie fordern etwas heraus, das an ihre Männlichkeit, Tatkraft und Urinstinkte appelliert: den Chattooga, dessen Stromschnellen keiner je lebend überwunden hat. Ihre einzige Sicherheit sind zwei unsinkbare Aluminium-Kanus. Dennoch paddeln sie geradewegs in die Katastrophe. Aus dem Wochenend-Ausflug wird ein Höllentrip.
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hopes to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.
This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. Led by Norman D. Nevills, nine men undertake a nineteen days trip in three specially built rowboats through the more than 200 rapids, some which run at 30 mph. Along the way, they see the remnants of previous expeditions. They also visit abandoned Pueblo Indian cave dwellings.
A thrilling ride through liquid spaces and wild dimensions.
This Sportscope short focuses on the sport of kayaking.