Snowball Express is a 1972 screwball comedy film made by Walt Disney Productions about a man who leaves his middle class job to run a hotel left to him by his uncle. Johnny Baxter is at his corporate middle class job when a probate attorney tells him that his recently deceased uncle, Jacob Barnesworth, has left him sole ownership of the lucrative Grand Imperial Hotel in the fictional town of Silver Hill, Colorado. A letter written by Barnesworth claims that the hotel brings in more than $14,000 per month. Baxter, clearly chafing under the dehumanizing conditions at the office, views this as... a golden opportunity. Baxter quits his job in a grand spectacle and moves his family to Colorado to take proprietorship of the hotel. The family finds it to be an immense but ramshackle building with no heat and a colorful old codger, Jesse McCord , living in the shed. Initially, Baxter is inclined to turn McCord out for what appeared to be breaking and entering until he is pressured by his family—mainly his children—to allow McCord to stay.
more
| Release date: | December 22, 1972 |
| Directed by: | Norman Tokar |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Genre: | Comedy |