Dean Jones may have replaced Fred MacMurray as the Disney Studio's favorite male lead actor for their G rated films. But personally I think he's more the Jimmy Stewart type right down to the stuttering. Never was Dean more like Jimmy than in Snowball Express.
One day in the life of insurance salesman Dean Jones comes David White who brings him the news that he now owns a hotel in some small town in the Colorado rockies. So seeing a chance of escaping the 9 to 5 grind Jones quits the job and packs Nancy Olsen and the two kids Kathleen Cody and Johnny Whittaker and its off to Colorado.
It's quite the rundown little palace they've inherited it even includes a permanent boarder in old prospector Harry Morgan. But Jones sees an opportunity for a ski resort and sets about making his dream come true.
Of course he has to face skinflint banker Keenan Wynn who has his own venal reasons as bankers in Disney films usually do. Wynn is playing essentially another version of Alonzo Hawk the villain in The Absent Minded Professor and Son Of Flubber.
The climax is a snowmobile race with the prize money enough to bail him out of the debt Jones has incurred with Wynn. Young Mike McGreevey can't drive as he usually would so Jones and Morgan have to race Wynn. It's a pretty funny race as is also the rescue of McGreevey when he's left hanging in a tree off a mountainside.
Snowball Express is a nice family comedy from the Magic Kingdom with a little magic in the story.
One day in the life of insurance salesman Dean Jones comes David White who brings him the news that he now owns a hotel in some small town in the Colorado rockies. So seeing a chance of escaping the 9 to 5 grind Jones quits the job and packs Nancy Olsen and the two kids Kathleen Cody and Johnny Whittaker and its off to Colorado.
It's quite the rundown little palace they've inherited it even includes a permanent boarder in old prospector Harry Morgan. But Jones sees an opportunity for a ski resort and sets about making his dream come true.
Of course he has to face skinflint banker Keenan Wynn who has his own venal reasons as bankers in Disney films usually do. Wynn is playing essentially another version of Alonzo Hawk the villain in The Absent Minded Professor and Son Of Flubber.
The climax is a snowmobile race with the prize money enough to bail him out of the debt Jones has incurred with Wynn. Young Mike McGreevey can't drive as he usually would so Jones and Morgan have to race Wynn. It's a pretty funny race as is also the rescue of McGreevey when he's left hanging in a tree off a mountainside.
Snowball Express is a nice family comedy from the Magic Kingdom with a little magic in the story.