Snowbound (Original title)
Dates: 1947 (Copyright), 03 May 1948 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: David MacDonald
Synopsis: Thriller. Film director (and intelligence agent) Bob Engles spots his old fellow-soldier Neil Blair working as a film extra, and gives him a special job to do instead. Posing as a scriptwriter, Blair is to stay in a ski lodge in the Dolomites and monitor the comings and goings of its other residents. This he does, with increasing peril to life and limb, as seven mysterious people, many of whom seem to know each other, gather in the lodge. It soon becomes clear that they are all searching for something they believe is buried in the immediate vicinity.
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Espionage, Filmmakers, Ski resorts
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Length: 7800 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: November 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Dates: 1947 (Copyright), 03 May 1948 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: David MacDonald
Synopsis: Thriller. Film director (and intelligence agent) Bob Engles spots his old fellow-soldier Neil Blair working as a film extra, and gives him a special job to do instead. Posing as a scriptwriter, Blair is to stay in a ski lodge in the Dolomites and monitor the comings and goings of its other residents. This he does, with increasing peril to life and limb, as seven mysterious people, many of whom seem to know each other, gather in the lodge. It soon becomes clear that they are all searching for something they believe is buried in the immediate vicinity.
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Espionage, Filmmakers, Ski resorts
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Length: 7800 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: November 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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©/A Gainsborough Picture: Gainsborough Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Presents: The Rank Organisation, Released through: RKO Radio Pictures, In Charge of Production: Sydney Box, Produced by: Aubrey Baring, Production Manager: Anthony Nelson Keys, Production Controller: Arthur Alcott, Alpine Location Director: Godfrey Grayson, Assistant Director: Don Weeks, [Continuity]: Phyllis Ross, Screenplay by: David Evans, Keith Campbell, Additional Dialogue: Hammond Innes, From the novel 'The Lonely Skier' by: Hammond Innes, Director of Photography: Stephen Dade, Alpine Exterior Photography: Cyril J. Knowles, Cameraman: Jack Asher, Special Effects: P. Guidobaldi, Supervising Editor: A. Charles Knott, Editor: James Needs, [Assistant Editor]: Gerry Anderson, Supervising Art Director: George Provis, Designs and Art Direction: Maurice Carter, Dress Designer: Joan Ellacott, Make-up: W.T. Partleton, Music Composed by: Cedric Thorpe Davie, and [Music] Played by: The London Symphony Orchestra, [Music] Conducted by: John Hollingsworth, Director of Sound: B.C. Sewell, [Sound] Recording: Sid Wiles, William Salter, Sound System: British Acoustic Film, Made at the: Gainsborough Studios, [Studio]: Shepherd's Bush Studios
Cast
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Robert Newton (Bob Engles), Dennis Price (Neil Blair), Stanley Holloway (Joe Wesson), Herbert Lom (Keramikos), Marcel Dalio (Stefano Valdini), Guy Middleton (Gilbert Mayne), Mila Parely (Contessa Forelli (Carla Rometta)), Willy Fueter (Aldo), Richard Molinas (Mancini), Catharina Ferraz (Emilia), Massino Coen (auctioneer), William Price (Stelben), Gilbert Davis (commissionaire), Rossiter Shepherd (lawyer), Lionel Grose (Corporal Holtz), Zena Marshall (Italian girl)