Snowbound

Snowbound (1948)

Seven of the world's most dangerous people...

Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.

Date of release
1948-03-23
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Director
David MacDonald

Casting

Interesting facts

Snowbound is a 1948 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Robert Newton, Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway, Herbert Lom, Marcel Dalio and Guy Middleton and introducing Mila Parély. Based on the 1947 novel The Lonely Skier by Hammond Innes, the film concerns a group of people searching for treasure hidden by the Nazis in the Alps following the Second World War.

Production

Hammond Innes' novel The Lonely Skier was published in 1947. Film rights were bought by Sydney Box at Gainsborough Studios. The film involved location shooting in the French Alps. A unit was sent to shoot exteriors in the Alps while director David MacDonald finished Good Time Girl for Gainsborough.

Studio filming at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush took place in July 1947. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Carter and George Provis.

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