Category Archives: Vintage Ski Films

It Happened in Sun Valley…

    This vintage ski Hollywood hit from the 1940s starred John Payne & Sonja Henie. Sonja was, in fact, a Norwegian figure-skating champion who went on to enjoy a very successful acting career. And got to wear some cute woolly gloves along the way.     If you’re reading this via email, am afraid you’ll have to click through to the blog to see this magical film clip. Apparantly, it’s not technically possible to email YouTube videos on WordPress yet – sorry ’bout that! However, [...]

The Best James Bond Ski Scenes

                      The ski chase from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me – 1977 Watch the ski chase from The Spy Who Loved Me The clip shows Roger Moore bravely sporting a bright yellow one piece, flamboyantly topped and tailed with red beanie & boots.  There’s some thrilling footage here in the film’s opening sequence as  he is chased by Soviet agents in the Austrian Alps. After despatching one of his adversaries using a ski pole which fires an explosive [...]