In 1914, Shackleton set out to walk across the whole of Antarctica. While the South Pole had already been discovered, people had yet to make the cross-continent trek on foot. Before making landfall, however, his ship became trapped in the ice floe of the Weddell Sea where he and his crew stayed for over 400 days.[2]
The film was shot on location in Antarctica and also utilizes footage taken by the original expedition photographer, Frank Hurley.
Critical reception
The film received "Two Thumbs Up" from Ebert and Roeper.[citation needed]
Rotten Tomatoes suggests it is "a gorgeously made film tracking the explorer's legendary 1914 expedition to the icey, uninhabited continent."[4]
Joe Leydon, in Variety, wrote, "Despite its brevity, 'Adventure' vividly conveys the character and courage of Shackleton, one of the last great champions of the Heroic Age of Adventure. Butler glosses over a few unpleasant details in this telling of the story—for the sake of school-aged sensibilities, he was requested to refrain from showing how crewmen were forced to kill sled dogs for food—but the story remains gripping nonetheless."[5]
