At a critical moment in the billionaire vs. bear thriller “The Edge” (1997), protagonist Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) espouses a rather odd theory of what kills most people stranded in the wilderness—shame. There are certainly many mean beasts in today’s “Man vs. Beasts: Alaska Edition” episode of Be Reel. But David Mamet’s script for “The Edge” might have a point. When terror takes hold in films like “The Edge,” it’s often not the gray wolves, and Kodiak bears that doom the humans.

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