This film essentially begins with a ski instructor by the name of "Brian Davis" (Martin Milner) having recently been hired to work at a ski resort in Europe. When he gets there, he discovers that the other ski instructors behave in a predatory manner and make wagers on who can score first with some of the young ladies that arrive. Disgusted by this, Brian refuses to join them and even goes so far as to attempt to hinder the efforts of one particular playboy named "Toni" (Dietmar Schonherr) when he tries to seduce an attractive young woman named "Susan Halsey" (Claudia Martin). Yet even though Brian begins to have feelings for Susan, she seems to prefer Toni instead. Meanwhile, a young blonde from Denmark named "Karen Sloan" (Vivi Bach) has set her sights on Toni as well--and this creates all kinds of heartache for her along the way. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this low-budget project was clearly intended to profit from the lucrative "beach movie" sub-genre that was popular in America at the time. Unfortunately, it failed in that regard as the comedy was rather subdued and the plot was much too predictable as well. Likewise, the film quality was also quite bad. Be that as it may, I wasn't too impressed with this movie and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.
2 Reviews
I didn't get the fever from the skiing. I got it from the whole movie.
mark.waltz2 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
With long pauses of silly background music to unfunny antics going on and the lengthy scenes of the slopes, this cheaply made movie is extremely difficult to watch. At times it seems like it's emulating a Carol Burnett show sketch, and other times, a Frankie and Annette movie. The film was obviously made on a very low budget, and prints of it are so badly faded that it is often impossible to watch even for the curious of very bad movies. The only familiar cast member in the film is Martin Milner, and basically everybody is second rate to him. After the opening credits on the slopes with a toe tapping theme song, nothing really happens again for another 20 to 30 minutes, and the few songs that interject into the action are just horrible to the ears. You have to be a huge fan of skiing movies to even remotely find anything memorable. Obviously no time was put into creating a character driven storyline as everybody's character is a cliche of much better movies.
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