This was shown recently on London Live. It has to be said that it is visually a very striking film,set in the Austrian Alps. It concerns a group of English schoolchildren being taken on a school trip to practise their skiing. Of course there is one bad lad who seems to want to climb the highest mountain despite being told not to by his teacher. But of course this being A Childrens Film Foundation film he ignores a warning,and takes along a school friend. Well of course whilst he does reach the top he stumbles and breaks his leg on the descent. Getting to a hut there is then an avalanche which buries the hut. So they have to be dug out. Quite exciting in its own way.
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It's snow joke, but Ice just love a fluffy avalanche flick!
Weirdling_Wolf29 July 2022
I really enjoyed this one! Especially edifying is the exhilaratingly funky choonage by music maestros John Shakespeare & Derek Warne, these gifted fellows also composed the no less dynamic score to 'Killer's Moon'. 'Avalanche' is probably the most visually spectacular CFF (Children's Film Foundation) effort I have thus far seen, as the uncommonly beauteous, absurdly picturesque Austrian vistas are a constant delight to behold! Viewers will enjoy the increasingly precarious travails of a boisterous group of likeable, clean cut kiddie-winks who distressingly discover their playful wintry larks being glacially kiboshed by the dastardly descent of a mean old avalanche!!! Gadzooks!!! Well made, briskly paced, this high altitude, mild attitude, wholesomely nostalgic family film still delivers some rousingly entertaining Saturday matinee jollies!!! Huzzah!!!!! It's snow joke, but Ice just love a fluffy avalanche flick!
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