Winter Sports

I have done Baseball, Football, and Basketball, which leaves Hockey as the last remaining major American sport which I have yet to cover with a movie marathon. There being too few to warrant a full marathon, I have decided to include all winter sports, while makes for a Sonja Henie marathon early in the selection, but makes room for plenty of other exciting titles to be included. As always, I hope you will follow along and join in the conversation. Enjoy!

  1. One in a Million (Sidney Lanfield, 1936)
  2. Thin Ice (Sidney Lanfield (1937)
  3. Idol of the Crowds (Arthur Lubin, 1937)
  4. Happy Landing (Roy Del Ruth, 1938)
  5. My Lucky Star (Roy Del Ruth, 1938)
  6. The Ice Follies of 1939 (Reinhold Schunzel, 1939)
  7. Second Fiddle (Sidney Lanfield, 1939)
  8. Everything’s On Ice (Erle C. Kenton, 1939)
  9. Sun Valley Serenade (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941)
  10. Iceland (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1942)
  11. Wintertime (John Brahm, 1943)
  12. It’s a Pleasure (William A. Seiter, 1945)
  13. Ski Party (Alan Rafkin, 1965)
  14. Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie, 1969)
  15. The Other Side of the Mountain (Larry Peerce, 1975)
  16. Slap Shot (George Roy Hill, 1977)
  17. Ice Castles (Donald Wyre, 1978)
  18. The Sweater (Sheldon Cohen, 1980)
  19. Better Off Dead… (Savage Steve Holland, 1985)
  20. Youngblood (Peter Markle, 1986)
  21. Ski Patrol (Rich Correll, 1990)
  22. The Cutting Edge (Paul Michael Glaser, 1992)
  23. The Mighty Ducks (Stephen Herek, 1992)
  24. Cool Runnings (Jon Turtletaub, 1993)
  25. Iron Will (Charles Haid, 1994)
  26. D2: The Mighty Ducks (Sam Weisman, 1994)
  27. Balto (Simon Wells, 1995)
  28. Sudden Death (Peter Hyams, 1995)
  29. D3: The Mighty Ducks (Robert Lieberman, 1996)
  30. The Boys (Louis Saia, 1997)
  31. Mystery, Alaska (Jay Roach, 1999)
  32. Out Cold (Brendan & Emmett Malloy, 2001)
  33. Men with Brooms (Paul Gross, 2002)
  34. Miracle (Gavin O’Connor, 2004)
  35. Ice Princess (Tim Fywell, 2005)
  36. The Rocket (Charles Biname, 2005)
  37. Eight Below (Frank Marshall, 2006)
  38. Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon & Will Speck, 2007)
  39. Goon (Michael Dowse, 2011)
  40. Eddie the Eagle (Dexter Fletcher, 2016)
  41. Goon: Last of the Enforcers (Jay Baruchel, 2017)
  42. I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017)
  43. Olympic Dreams (Jeremy Teicher, 2019)