Snowball (1960 film)

Snowball
British quad poster
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	Independent Artists
Distributed by	Rank Film Distributors
Release date	1960
Running time	69 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Snowball is a 1960 British drama 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.

Plot[]

10-year-old Mickey (Dennis Waterman) is late home from school. He tells his parents he was thrown off the school bus by the conductor for not having a ticket, obliging him to walk four miles. The local press makes an issue of the incident and the story snowballs out of control. The conductor, a former POW with memory problems, is harassed until he collapses on railway tracks and is killed by a train. Mickey finally owns up to lying.

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
• Roddy McMillan as Jack, 'bus conductor

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links[]

• Snowball at IMDb

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