- Several men hiking in the mountains discover an injured skyjacker who parachuted from a plane with six hundred thousand dollars.
- Five men hiking in the mountains discover an injured skyjacker who parachuted from a plane with six hundred thousand dollars. They kill him, then start fighting each other over the money.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- A group of five men hiking through the woods come across an injured man lying in the bushes. When they find that he has six hundred thousand dollars in cash with him, they realize he is a skyjacker who has parachuted out of an airplane and gotten injured in the landing. While some of the men want to report the incident to the authorities, others want to kill the skyjacker and take the money.
- Set in the beautiful but unforgiving mountains of Wyoming, Deliver Us from Evil begins quietly, with five friends hiking on a camping trip through the woods, lead by professional but well-worn guide Dixie (Jim Davis).The men seem to know each other, but they also appear rather distant in many ways. Certainly they are not much alike. They are Al (Jack Weston) an overweight whiny tool and dye worker,Arnold (Charles Aidman), a quiet middle class suburban airline worker in late middle age; Steven (Bradford Dillman), a twitchy accountant CPA; Nick (Jan-Michael Vincent), Arnold's twenty-something son, reeling from a recent divorce; and Walter "Cowboy" McAdams (George Kennedy), a macho blowhard who fancies himself an outdoorsman and wears a pistol on his belt. He's the cocky type - full of pseudo-machismo, complete with the ten-gallon hat and a survivalist attitude.Walter spots someone parachuting into the forest and then the men hear on the radio that a skyjacker has stolen $600,000 and escaped by jumping from a plane.The D.B. Cooper-like skyjacker escaped by parachute in the same part of Wyoming where the men are camping.Walter wants to go get him now but Dixie says it's too dangerous so they camp out overnight,and the next day,Walter persuades the others to join him in chasing the alleged criminal.Once they find and corner their quarry, a trigger-happy Walter kills the fleeing parachutist. After a stomach-churning interlude during which the men fear that Walter killed an innocent man, they discover the hijacker's stolen loot-$600,000 in cash. Nick is upset that Walter shot an unarmed man but Walter said the man took a gamble when he stole the money and he lost."He killed himself. I just pulled the trigger." At first, the group reacts to the discovery with good citizenship, securing the money for a hike back to civilization so they can return the cash to its rightful owners. Yet it's not long before the lust for wealth invades the hearts of even the noblest members of this crew, so, as the men make their way across cliffs, mountains, and finally a glacier, they turn on each other.The men decide to split the money but Dixie and Nick find themselves torn with how they should handle things.Highly principled Dixie pushes the men to travel as fast as they can,since he knows it's only a matter of time before someone hatches the idea to keep the cash. When they camp out that night,he begs Nick to consider man's true nature - and not to succumb to it. He says his job is his life and he doesn't need the money and security can't be bought.You either have it or you don't. The next day he refuses to agree to keep the money.He leads them around the ridge of a cliff and calls for a rope. Walter throws him the rope,but he slips and falls over the edge of the cliff.He grabs on to a bush and shouts for another rope but the one Walter and Nick throw him he can't quite seem to grab on to as it keeps pulling away from him.Dixie finally falls to his death.They go to get his body since he has the only map and his share of the money. They bury him and get his map and his share of the money but his compass is broken. Walter ignores Dixie's earlier warning that the glacier was dangerous and says they have to go through it to get to the highway. They move on. Al becomes tired out and his back hurts,but dreams of a new station wagon a trip to Hawaii keep him motivated. Nick says he should just clean up his tool and dye store,and he only wants the woman he left behind.Finally Walter pushes it to a choice and everyone except Arnold and Nick has agreed to keep the money.Arnold finally agrees to keep the money because he has used up all his money on Nick's education and there's nothing left, and his flight business hasn't worked out too well.Nick goes along with it in order to help his father. Steven has a plan for them to launder the money through the Mexican banking system so no one will trace the serial numbers. it will take months before anyone notices anything unusual.As long as they take the money out slowly and don't call attention to themselves, they should be home free. Arnold says he can live comfortably for the rest of his life on the interest alone. When they set up camp for the night Arnold sees Walter going through his bag and they end up in a fight. The others break it up and Walter says he was only going for coffee.Arnold says ask permission next time.Al suffers a heart attack bringing back wood. His weight and the strain on his back have finally caught up to him.Walter says they'll have to leave him there and send a helicopter back for him but they should take his share of the money so no one will find it on him. They hear a plane flying overhead and cover up the fire logs and hide until it passes by.Nick points out they could have gotten help for Al. The next morning Al awakens in his sleeping bag to find himself seemingly alone.His heart episode was only a mild one and he is soon on his feet rifling through his bag for his money.Nick has stayed behind with him. Al screams that they stole his money and runs after them. He suffers another more severe heart attack and when Nick catches up to him he's dead. Meanwhile,the other three go across a river on a log. Nick catches up to them. Walter gets across first and helps Steven when he nearly falls in. Nick is horrified to see Arnold fall into the river rapids just before he can reach Walter. Arnold is carried downstream but manages to grab onto a rock. Nick screams to his father to take his pack off and let the money go so he won't be weighted down. Arnold takes his pack off and throws it up first and then he loses his grip,and the current sweeps him away and under.Walter gets Arnold's pack containing his share of the money. Nick crosses the river with his pack and informs the others that Al is dead too.Steven tells Nick how sorry he is about his father. Walter is gathering up Arnold's share but he tells Nick he's sorry too. Nick replies in order to be sorry you have to feel something. "All you can do is think about yourself.Big macho cowboy!No wonder all your wives left you!" He has been wondering if Walter let Dixie fall too, or wanted it to happen. Walter picks up the bag with Arnold's share of the money and says if it means so little to Nick why not just throw it into the river rapids after him? Nick can't bring himself to tell Walter to do it,so Walter throws him the bag."Nice going kid.You just made yourself a profit of $200,000!" They move on and end up in the snowy hills of the glacier. Walter says if their feet are cold walk faster to keep the circulation going. Steven is still partly wet from stumbling in the river and he checks his socks and says his feet are frozen. Walter says he should have put on some dryer clothes. He says he put on dry socks. Walter says he must have gotten the inside of his boots wet. Steven says they have to build a fire but Walter says they have to get across the glacier before nightfall. It will take two or three more hours but Steven says he needs a fire now.Walter says to get some of his stuff from his pack and put it in their packs,and they'll carry his money.Steven agrees,saying he can make it across the glacier if he doesn't have anything to carry. Walter says if Steven gets across the glacier first to build a fire. They'll meet him there and the highway should be about a mile or so from there. Nick sees that Steven is getting worn out and thinks it wasn't worth it, but Walter snarls that Nick's as greedy as they all are and would die before he leaves the mountain without his share of the money. Steven is up ahead of them and collapses for a moment. He turns around to look at them but his vision has gotten blurry."Oh no you don't!" He stumbles towards them. Walter tells him to turn around and keep going up ahead, but he screams for them to come back, thinking they're leaving him. He reaches them and collapses saying he goes where the money goes and that it's his! Nick says if they don't get off this glacier he might end up losing both his feet. Nick and Walter pick Steven up, and they trudge on through the snow. By Night falls and they search for refuge from the growing blizzard. Walter shakes off Nick's help. They get separated from Steven in the blizzard. Nick searches for him and finds him collapsed in the snow, delirious,and tries to revive him. He carries him off. Walter staggers in the snow and says not to forget he's still got $300,000 and if they want it they have to help him. He collapses calling out to them. Nick finally drops his bag of money and carries Steven with both hands.Walter,meanwhile,huddles up in his bag and even burns a little bit of the money to build a bigger fire amongst some twigs, but the wind keeps blowing the money away. Walter huddles in his sleeping bag. Nick carries Steven into a cave,gathers twigs,and lights a fire beneath his feet. Walter, meanwhile, has frozen to death in the blizzard.His icy corpse sits there in the wind, cowboy hat perched on top of his head. Steven recovers in the cave as he and Nick sit by the fire. The next morning, the blizzard is over and Nick has wrapped Steven's legs and feet up in the sleeping bag. Nick climbs to the top of the hill. He looks across the snowy hills and the trees and sees buildings in the distance. He tells Steven there's not a track in sight. It's like it never happened. Steven says he can't walk. Nick says he'll go to the buildings down below for help. Steven asks him to try and find a newspaper so he can see how the stock market closed last night.Nick nods and starts down the hill.
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