Top of the Hill

The TV film aired in 1980 and I remember it well. Wayne Rogers is a daredevil married to Adrienne Barbeau who he separates from to hit the mountains (I think it was Aspen). He meets some horny women like the German Elke Sommer and has a friendship with a pianist Sonny Bono and has a one-night stand with Bono's girl (in one scene she takes her top off says "I don't want to be alone tonight" and goes into Rogers bedroom, Rogers eagerly following.)

Rogers enters the suicidal slolum (or whatever it's called) race with an emotionally desparate partner. For Sonny Bono to be in this film about daredevils in self-danger makes his ski-accident death that much more ironic.

The one thing that stands out for me in this movie is Wayne Rogers character going into a Porsche dealer and buying a brand new 930 Turbo. I was in high school at the time and we could not talk about that car enough, quoting it's spec's, it's 0-60 time, it's price, it was the stuff of fantasies for kids that could only look forward to driving their parents 130 hp Chevy Citation. The scene of it flying over the frozen lake bed is "frozen" in my mind as well and I can almost recreate that particular scene from almost 40 years ago. Wish they would release a copy of this on DVD, I'd probably watch that scene 4 or 5 times a week.

Hi Barbara, my father was a driver on the set of that movie and I do have a ton of memorabilia from it! I have the cover of the script signed by almost the entire cast, including Sonny Bono...I am not sure if that is something you were looking for by my father passed away and a lot of this stuff just surfaced. We found head shots of Denise Du Barry, Craig Wassan (Signed) tons of pictures from the set etc...

If you want me to scan anything in for you and email it you can email me @ giuliani21@gmail.com and I will be happy to do so. Also if you are interested in purchasing the original signatures, like I said, I have the whole cast plus a couple extra of Sonny Bono and Craig Wassan. I was barely 4 at the time of the movie but I remember my father bringing me up there! That place is absolutely fantastic!

Anyway, if you need anything or want anything, let me know..

Wayne Rogers is just a living doll. He was beyond sexy in this most memorable film about a handsome,exciting,young daredevil. Adriane Barbeau was so good playing his most- unhappy wife...but in the end....after all of those women who wanted him so badly...She got her husband back,no thanks to Elke sommers....and the darling girlfriend of Sonny Bono...The Plot is quite simple yet so many emotions are set in motion in this Resort town in New York..I think this Ski Resort was the scene from one of the Winter Olympics? It is just so weird about Sonny Bono,after all he wasn't in that many movies and yet he played a Skiing expert and ironically its the way he died!. Well if you like a simple plot but yet manges to offer plenty of fun and and a few steamy scenes...well watch this movie "Top of the Hill"...you'll be glad you did!

I have fond memories of this movie (especially of Sonny Bono, who was a really nice gentleman). The setting of this movie was supposed to be Lake Placid because of the Olympics, but much of it was filmed in Mt. Tremblant because there was not enough snow at Lake Placid when they were filming. We were there on a high school trip when they were filming and a few of my classmates and I were paid extras in some scenes. We were paid something like $27 a day for a couple of days to sit in the bar, drink Molson, play backgammon (with Sonny) and walk through scenes. For HS kids, that was great drinking money at the time! If anyone knows where to get a copy of this, I'd love to know about it! Footnote: Mt. Tremblant is where Natasha Richardson had her fatal skiing accident.