The Leading Edge

The Leading Edge

74 mins | Drama, Documentary | Aug. 15, 1987

A bored Colorado ski patrolman comes to New Zealand for the winter season. In between skiing on various North and South Island fields and preparing for the "Ironman' endurance contest, he has a good time with the people he meets. Billy T. James features briefly as an entertainer cum 'fright-a-minute'- aviator. This is a hybrid genre, a semi-dramatized documentary with champion skiers playing themselves.

The Leading Edge

74 mins | Drama, Documentary | Aug. 15, 1987

The Leading Edge
A bored Colorado ski patrolman comes to New Zealand for the winter season. In between skiing on various North and South Island fields and preparing for the "Ironman' endurance contest, he has a good time with the people he meets. Billy T. James features briefly as an entertainer cum 'fright-a-minute'- aviator. This is a hybrid genre, a semi-dramatized documentary with champion skiers playing themselves.
Producers Southern Light Pictures
Original title The Leading Edge
Directors Michael Firth
Writers Grant Morris

Cast

Mathurin Molgat

as Matt

Bruce Grant

as Bruce

Evan Bloomfield

as Evan

Mark Whetu

as Mark

Billy T. James

as himself