Six Million Tons Of Icy Terror!

At the height of the disaster movie craze in '78, the notoriously frugal Roger Corman decided to throw his hat into the ring with one of the genre's funniest entries, Avalanche. Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, and Robert Forster head a decidedly downscale cast of vacationers at a storm-plagued ski resort, while TV action director Corey Allen tries to keep things moving fast enough for viewers not to notice the styrofoam ice blocks. Modern classical composer and USC faculty member William Kraft contributes the music score, which is actually quite solid; the most memorable track is "Bruce and Annette (Jazz)," a great bit that could have wandered in from a prime Piero Piccioni album.