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Snowbound (1948)

Snowbound poster
Directed by
David MacDonald
Genre
adventure film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

After World War II, a group of people search for Nazi treasure hidden in the Alps. They face danger and betrayal in the snowy mountains.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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