Though made-for-TV ice skating musical, based on the classic children's book by Mary Mapes Dodge, possesses a number of modest virtues, it's not one for the ages. Holland, 1838: Once the members of the Brinker family could hold their heads high, but after their patriarch (John Gregson) suffers brain damage in a house-building accident he can neither continue to work nor remember where he sequestered the family's savings. Mama Brinker (Eleanor Parker) makes the most of their scant resources, but her children, Hans (Robin Askwith) and Gretel (Roberta Tovey), can only afford wooden ice skates and even a champion like Hans needs metal blades if he hopes to win the kind o...
Released:
1979
Rated:
NR
Length:
103 mins