With pastel blues all over, this looks like it was done in the artificial looking Cinecolor, a photography process that was utilized for 1940's and 50's B pictures to make them look more expensive than they were. It also features the funniest disaster sequence ever that has skiers flying in hysterical ways and victims of the avalanche being shown having tons of snow shoving them around as if it were a 1940's cartoon.
You aren't supposed to laugh at human beings in peril, but here you can't help yourself. The pairing of Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow romantically is laughable, not only for their difference in ages, but mainly because they have zero chemistry. Other character's stories are set up in ways that makes them boring, and other than a brief avalanche towards the beginning where skier Rick Moses avoids being crushed by purposely flying into a tree, nothing of note happens.
Poor Jeanette Nolan, once again sporting a ridiculous hairstyle, is your stereotypical overaged Auntie Mame type as Hudson's mother, and overacts before and after the avalanche. Hudson doesn't act so much but simply seems to be wondering why he is doing this, something that the audience quickly figures out within the first half an hour. Fortunately this clocks in at a passable 90 minutes so not a lot of time wasted, and plenty of horrible special effects to laugh at.
You aren't supposed to laugh at human beings in peril, but here you can't help yourself. The pairing of Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow romantically is laughable, not only for their difference in ages, but mainly because they have zero chemistry. Other character's stories are set up in ways that makes them boring, and other than a brief avalanche towards the beginning where skier Rick Moses avoids being crushed by purposely flying into a tree, nothing of note happens.
Poor Jeanette Nolan, once again sporting a ridiculous hairstyle, is your stereotypical overaged Auntie Mame type as Hudson's mother, and overacts before and after the avalanche. Hudson doesn't act so much but simply seems to be wondering why he is doing this, something that the audience quickly figures out within the first half an hour. Fortunately this clocks in at a passable 90 minutes so not a lot of time wasted, and plenty of horrible special effects to laugh at.