Die Lawine

A good film to show young people!

This film concentrates on a young boy who has a tendency to tell fibs. There are serious issues contained in this movie, not only child lies, but the way the press and a person's peers can treat an innocent person, going only on the word of a child.

Basically, this film is about how a childs simple lie can have repercussions beyond the mis-spending of a sixpence, and lead to things no one wanted, or expected.

Waterman and Jackson are great and show the acting skills that would later make them both excellent TV actors.

The film could do with an upgrade, as it still carries an important message.

8 out of 10.

Shows very well how "a little white lie" can have far reaching consequences which has happened in real life thousands of times and this will continue. Politicians are of course well practiced in this especially in 2022, no examples are required I'm sure. Interesting so see a 12 year old Dennis Waterman in action.

Like Pat Jackson's earlier film 'The Birthday Present', behind the apparently light-hearted title lies not a fluffy little comedy but a stark drama reminiscent of 'The Children's Hour', 'Le Corbeau', 'Panique' and 'The Wrong Man' which could have been called 'The Tangled Web'.

Sixty years on the tensions between bus drivers and their passengers are still a feature of daily life; as well as the malign influence of the tabloid press. Ironically only two years earlier Kenneth Griffith had already played a fare dodger in 'Chain of Events'; but this time the poacher is the gamekeeper.

Hadnt saw this before but caught it recently on Talking Pictures. An enjoyable little movie of how Peoples lives are affected by one small lie from a school boy (played by Dennnis Waterman who contrary to another reviewers opinion, actually did have have a few hit TV series playing lead roles such series as The Sweeney, Minder and Minder.

Kenneth Griffith is great as the accused Bus Conductor, while Gordan Jackson and Zena Walker play the parents of the boy. Throw in a rookie news reporter and things really do "Snowball" and makes the film gripping and shows just how one little white lie can cause so much trouble and consequences.

I recently caught this film on talking pictures having never seen it before. Top cast included an eleven year old but clearly recognisable Dennis Waterman as a schoolboy who turns up at home very late from school. On being asked where he's been he blames a bus conductor for Turning him off the bus for not having a ticket. A nosy neighbour writes to the papers and before long it all snowballs out of control with the conductor who was pow in the war hounded by all. Now I expected a typical period drama all cosy and nice, I got a surprise... Dennis is very good as the boy and his parents Gordon Jackson. And Zena walker are similarly good. This is a morality tale of what can happen to the nicest of people when we don't think, as the title says,... things 'snowball' An excellent and unsuspected film.