Dante's Peak
The pressure is building...
Country
Production
Budget
$116 000 000
Box office
$178 127 760
Director
Actors
Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Arabella Field, Jamie Renée Smith, Jeremy Foley, Elizabeth Hoffman, Charles Hallahan, Grant Heslov, Kirk Trutner, Tzi Ma
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Gale Anne Hurd, Joseph Singer, Ilona Herzberg, Andrew Millstein
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
J. Dennis Washington, Ann Harris
Audition
Mike Fenton, Allison Cowitt
Editing
Short description
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.
What's left behind the scenes
- The camera that Pierce Brosnan's character used during the first inspection of the volcano actually belonged to the actor himself.
- The volcanic ash in the film actually consisted of very finely chopped scraps of newspaper.
- The print on Greg's shirt (played by Grant Heslov) on the first day of observing Dante's Peak depicts a graph of volcanic ash eruptions in the US over the last 4,000 years.
- To film a close-up of pyroclastic gases erupting from the volcano's mouth, gas pipes were run under the volcano set.
- Most of the filming took place in the small town of Wallace, Idaho. Mount Dante itself and the surrounding landscape were added using computer graphics.
- When the lava reaches the mountain shelter, everyone runs to the shore to the boat. During the filming of the first take of this scene, the boat went underwater. It turned out that Jamie Rene Smith couldn't swim, and Pierce Brosnan had to come to her aid until the actress was pulled out of the water.
- The dog in the film is a wolf-Airedale Terrier mix.
- Over 6 million tons of water were used in the scene where the massive mudflow breaks the dam. The dam model itself was built at three-quarters scale.
- The story of Ruth (played by Elizabeth Hoffman) and her refusal to leave was inspired by real events. In 1980, before the eruption of Mount St. Helens, one of the local residents (who lived in a ruined tourist hotel that he himself owned) also flatly refused to evacuate to a safe place. He stubbornly replied to all persuasions that the danger of the situation was exaggerated. Another local resident, a representative of the U.S. Geological Survey, took a position on the ground from which he began to observe the north slope of the volcano. At half-past nine in the morning on May 18, 1980, he transmitted a message over the radio about the start of the eruption, and he was never seen alive again. Initially, the speed of the pyroclastic flows was 224 mph, after which it exceeded 621 mph. In 1993, road workers discovered the remains of the Geological Survey employee's trailer, but neither his body nor the body of the stubborn hotel owner were found.
- The volcanic eruption shown in the film is classified in volcanology as Plinian type. It is characterized by enormous columns of ash rising to altitudes of up to 45 km and is named after the Roman historian Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
- Scenes near the volcano crater were filmed on the active Mount St. Helens volcano, located in Skamania County, Washington State, USA. One of this volcano’s eruptions served as the basis for the film’s plot.
- The cast and crew of the film had to hurry, as the film company '20th Century Fox' was preparing to release its own film by Mika Jackson, 'Volcano' (1997). This film was released almost three months before 'Volcano,' and its box office receipts were significantly higher.
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