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The Lonely Skier is a 1947 thriller novel by British writer Hammond Innes.It is set in the Dolomites where a number of people are hunting a stash of buried Nazi treasure. The hero Neil Blair, recently demobbed from the army and unemployed, is hired to go to an isolated ski resort and pretend he is writing a screenplay.
Snowbound: Directed by David MacDonald. With Robert Newton, Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway, Herbert Lom. A group of people search for Nazi treasure hidden in the Alps.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- David MacDonald
- 1948-09-17
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.
- David Macdonald
- Gainsborough Pictures
- Robert Newton
- United Kingdom
The screenplay concerns a group of people searching for treasure hidden by the Nazis in the Alps following the Second World War. It was based on the novel The Lonely Skier by Hammond Innes. The film's sets were designed by the art director Maurice Carter.
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Nik Morton. Author 66 books39 followers. May 1, 2024. The Lonely Skier was Hammond Innes’s tenth published novel (1947). Neil Blair, the narrator, is recently demobbed, unemployed, married to Peggy, and penniless. He stumbles upon a job with an old Army comrade – writing a screenplay set in the Italian Dolomites.
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Aug 5, 2019 · The searchers, congregating at a remote skier’s inn in the Italian Alps, include a film director (Robert Newton), a former British intelligence officer, and his screenwriter (Dennis Price); a soft-spoken ex-Gestapo officer (Herbert Lom), who wants the gold for a Fourth Reich; a renegade British officer (Guy Middleton), who stole the identity of another soldier and wants the gold for himself ...
