# Movies with SNOW in them... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272 "2004-09-05T22:10:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/21 "2004-09-06T00:05:46Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > California rancher Robert Mitchum follows the _Track of the Cat_ (1954) through a snow storm. Ohmygod how could I have forgotten this? One of my alltime top 25-or-so films. The snow is absolutely ubiquitous and oppressive: the snow is overwhelming in this movie. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/22 "2004-09-06T00:06:54Z")
Another one, Where Eagles Dare. ---
**Author:** ![MikeCollins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@MikeCollins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeCollins)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/23 "2004-09-06T00:07:33Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > _Seven Brides for Seven Brothers_ (1954) are snowbound together for the winter after the latter kidnap the former and cause an avalanche to block a mountain pass. Ahhhhhhhh. Another one I forgot to mention. Nice one. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/24 "2004-09-06T00:11:57Z")
Dr. Zhivago (1965) The Shining (1980) Come to the Stable (1949) Eskimo (1933) The Call of the Wild (1935) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Oliver! (1968) Scrooge (1970) Spawn of the North (1938) The Savage Innocents (1959) Nanook of the North (1922) Never Cry Wolf (1983) The Deluge (1974) War and Peace (1968) Thin Ice (1937) Second Fiddle (1939) The Gold Rush (1925) ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/25 "2004-09-06T00:31:48Z")
One of the best movies for the use of snow, IMO, was “The Shining”, both the Kubrick version and the later miniseries/telemovie. Snow was also used to good effect in “Ice Station Zebra” Add “Cliffhanger”… and “Ice Age” if animation is allowed. And who could possibly forget “Scott of the Sahara”? And we are all trying to forget “Vertical Limit”. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/26 "2004-09-06T00:38:52Z")
Fargo (1996) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) The Lion in Winter (1968) The Duelists (1977) Two-Faced Woman (1941) Love and Death (1976) Amarcord (1973) Bambi (1942) A Simple Plan (1998) Sun Valley Serenade (1941) A Brief Vacation (1973) Snowball Express (1972) Winter Light (1963) ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/27 "2004-09-06T02:28:47Z")
A vital part of **Citizen Kane** is set in a snowy farm, and of course the key to the whole thing has to do with snow… I’ve gotten to the point where I can’t really remember one James Bond film from another, but several have nice snow/skiing scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/28 "2004-09-06T02:46:35Z")
Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/29 "2004-09-06T03:17:25Z")
Eiger Sanction The Thing (this was on last night, still makes me jump, and GOD Kurt Russell looks good with a beard) All the Harry Potters. The snow looks killer in the great hall. The Great Divide The Bishop’s Wife Ice Age (yeah, I know, but I have kids. Whaddaya gonna do?) Reindeer Games A Simple Twist of Fate-I wish Steve Martin would direct more. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/30 "2004-09-06T03:20:37Z")
_Quintet_ - bad bad movie but lots of snow ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/31 "2004-09-06T03:35:47Z")
_Runaway Train_. One of the most underrated and overlooked action films of all time. Another Kurosawa masterpiece. Takes place in the Alaskan wilderness, lots of snow. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/32 "2004-09-06T03:51:05Z")
_Dersu Uzala (1975)_ Kurosawa film set in Siberia _To Build A Fire (1969)_ Jack London’s short story, Narrated byiOrson Welles. If you want snow & oppressive cold this is the film. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/33 "2004-09-06T03:59:13Z")
_Scarface_. What? Oh, well then _The Invisible Man_. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/34 "2004-09-06T04:26:47Z")
Snow Day Willow ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/35 "2004-09-06T04:37:28Z")
One of my pet peeves is Ethan Hawke movies where it’s snowing and he has a runny nose and flushed cheeks from all the snow. Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) … Ishmael Chambers White Fang II: Myth of the White Wolf (1994) (uncredited) … Jack Conroy … aka White Fang 2 (1994) Alive (1993) … Nando Parrado … aka Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993) White Fang (1991/I) … Jack Conroy Dead Poets Society (1989) … Todd Anderson ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/36 "2004-09-06T05:02:26Z")
A Winter Straw Ride (1906) A Christmas Accident (1897) A Trap For Santa Claus (1909) ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/37 "2004-09-06T05:22:37Z")
> [@MikeCollins](#): > > So boys and girls, indulge me. How many other movies can you think of (please not _Home Alone 2_) that are covered in snow? Home Alone 1? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/38 "2004-09-06T05:24:15Z")
> [@Made in Macau](#): > > OK - I feel kind of stupid for saying this, but ‘White Christmas’. It’s not real snow, but it gets it’s own songs and it’s a plot point and it’s a great movie. > Goodnight now. It was real snow in _White Christmas_. You’re thinking of the _Holiday Inn_, which also featured – and in fact introduced – that song. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/39 "2004-09-06T05:27:34Z")
> [@presidebt](#): > > **The Color Purple** has an extraordinary amount of snow in it considering the story takes place in rural Georgia. Then there’s _Pale Rider_ which, for some reason, features more snow in town than anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272/40 "2004-09-06T05:31:47Z")
I’m surpised noone has mentioned the genius that is _Ski School_. I believe there is also a sequel to Ski School. About half of _With Honors_ takes place in the winter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-snow-in-them/263272.md?page=3)