Snowball (1960 film)
Appearance
Snowball | |
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Directed by | Pat Jackson |
Written by | Anne Francis |
Based on | novel Snowball by James Lake |
Produced by | Leslie Parkyn Julian Wintle |
Starring | Gordon Jackson Kenneth Griffith Zena Walker |
Edited by | Peter Taylor |
Music by | Clifton Parker |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors |
Release date | 1960 |
Running time | 69 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Snowball is a 1960 British crime film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Gordon Jackson, Kenneth Griffith and Zena Walker.[1] It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Harry Pottle.
Premise
11-year-old Mickey (Dennis Waterman) tells one lie too many, a fib that snowballs, and results in the eventual death of a bus conductor, a former POW suffering from amnesia.
Cast
- Gordon Jackson as Bill Donovan
- Kenneth Griffith as Phil Hart
- Zena Walker as Mary Donovan
- Daphne Anderson as Nora Hart
- Dennis Waterman as Mickey Donovan
- John Welsh as Ted Wylie
- Myrtle Reed as Betty Martin
- Wensley Pithey as Jim Adams
- Eric Pohlmann as Editor
- Ronald Adam as Mr. King
References
- ^ Goble p.272
- ^ http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b72bcba4a
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.