Product Details

• Actors: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn, Joan Davis
• Directors: Sidney Lanfield
• Writers: Attila Orbók, Boris Ingster, Milt Gross, Milton Sperling, Wallace Sullivan
• Producers: Ben Silvey, Darryl F. Zanuck
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302989744
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,257 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great vechicle for Sonja and Tyrone to shine in, April 22, 2002

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Simon Davis (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thin Ice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Thin Ice" is a delightful concoction from 1937 and was the film that really catapulted Sonja Henie to top stardom at Twentieth Century Fox. Having the sparkling Tyrone Power as her attractive leading man certainly also helped at the Box Office. The two were destined to co star together twice in films and both times showed a real screen chemistry.

No expense was spared in this production and it shows in the truly lavish skating numbers where Sonja really shows her skill on the ice. Tyrone Power plays Prince Rudolph who masquerades as a reporter at the resort while romancing Henie's skating instructor character. Tyrone, I feel always shows a great flair for comedy and he is totally at home in this part of the handsome prince who just wants to get out on the slopes,do some skiiing and find romance.

The stars are ably supporting by wonderful character actors such as Arthur Treacher, a regular in the Shirley Temple vechicles, and the always excellent Alan Hale..a regular of almost every Errol Flynn film of the 30's and early 40's. There are a couple of largely unnecessary musical comedy numbers to showcase Joan Davis that tend to get in the way of the main story but they are not too distracting.

Tyrone and Sonja make a stunning couple and this production really compliments them both to perfection. Despite Sonja's lack of real acting ability she is well cast here and as always on screen she has a sweet persona that goes very well with a handsome leading man who has a bit of spark to him like Tyrone Power has on screen.

"Thin Ice" is a pleasant vechicle to watch.Twentieth Century Fox was expert at creating this genre of film making and used a regular roster of stars to fill them. I in particular enjoy when Power and Henie were co starred as they really projected old fashioned star power and glamour from the Golden age of Hollywood. Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You would think that this would be in a Tyrone Power DVD box set by now!, January 12, 2011

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D. S. Wymore "Golden Age of Hollywood fan" (Catskill Mountains, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thin Ice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Yes, it's marketed as a Sonja Henie picture but, in truth, the real marketing angle would be to sell it with other Tyrone Power films that have yet to make it to DVD - there's the audience! Fox has released 2 Tyrone Power box sets in recent years yet there are still many of his films that are not even on VHS, let alone DVD (I'm thinking of Suez, American Guerilla in the Phillipines and the non-Fox film Mississippi Gambler). A box set with this film and the other Sonja Henie vehicle, Second Fiddle, would be great. We Tyrone Power fans would snap them up.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SONJA EMERGES AS HOLLYWOOD STAR, July 13, 2004

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Henning Sebastian Jahre "Judy-Viv" (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thin Ice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After One in a Million 1936, Sonja Henie was fast becoming a Hollywood star in the front rank. In THIN ICE she is teamed with her then-boyfriend Tyrone Power and the chemistry is explosive... It`s a Cinderella-story, but given the full treatment by 20th Century-Fox - it`s almost like an MGM extravaganza :-)

The skating is good and Joan Davis as a comedy relief is a winner. As a matter of fact I can`t understand the fuzz they make about the Astaire&Rogers musicals over at RKO... I much more prefer the Sonja Henie`s at 20th Century-Fox... They are never OVERLONG and never outstays their welcome:-)

The affair with Power never ended in marriage; he was bisexual and Sonja found out... When he married French Annabella she was reportedly deeply hurt though they remained friends up until Power died of a heart-attack while filming in 1958.