To Build A Fire (1969)

I'm from Minnesota and have been out in weather as cold as the protagonist (generally in Wyoming), so I could really enter into the suspense of his trek (his cluelessness, then his urgency). The story translates well enough from print to screen. Since it's from 1969, I was prepared to give it two stars, but I give it three because it really caught me up in the story; I felt for the guy. Only someone who doesn't understand the life issues that are at stake for anyone in this situation (i.e., some callow youth who is as ignorant as this character, whom no one with a heart should want to die) would fail to empathize with the protagonist (however ironically termed a "hero"). Three stars.