Sidney Lumet directed a skating musical? The 50s were WILD, darling.
In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal.
Direction
Lumet's early TV work before he became the king of claustrophobic masculinity.
Production
Glorious technicolor ice sequences that cost more than the script.
Acting
Basil Rathbone classing up the joint as a grumpy surgeon.
Director
Sidney Lumet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired as a live NBC spectacular before being preserved on film—Dick Button was an actual Olympic figure skater roped into acting.
The 'Hans Brinker' story is actually American author Mary Mapes Dodge's 1865 fantasy of Dutch life—no actual Dutch person wrote this.
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