MVD Entertainment Group has a new “Rewind Collection” edition heading to the Blu-ray marketplace on Nov. 22. This would be none other than Richard Correll’s January of 1990 comedy, Ski Patrol, which will be available for the first time as a Blu-ray product offering.
In the spring of 1989, actor-turned-director Richard Correll (as Richard Rickover on the Leave It to Beaver sitcom), took his cast and crew to Park City Utah for a seven or eight-week film shoot. The cast included future award-winning voice talent Roger Rose as “Ski Patrol” member Jerry Cramer (in front of the camera acting credits include Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, The Five Heartbeats, Love Bites … before turning his attention full time to voice work in the early 1990s).
Other cast member (Ski Patrol members) are Yvette Nipar, T.K Carter and Leslie Jordan, with Paul Feig as a wannabe member and the lovely Tess Foltyn — from “Slovakia” — who is there to learn the Ski Patrol’s “techniques” (sure). Rounding out the cast are “Pop” (Ray Walston), the devious land-grabber Sam Maris (Martin Mull) and his minion — and rival to Rose — Lance (Corby Timbrook).
This was Correll’s debut as a director, having made the move from acting in the 1960s to episodic television producer in the early 1980s (involved with the likes of Laverne & Shirley, Police Squad!, Happy Days, Valerie and Step by Step) … after Ski Patrol he would become a prolific television series director, only returning to the theatrical release marketplace last year with The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (a film produced, wrote and directed).
It’s great fun as a series of sight gags and comedy bits playout against the backdrop of a wealthy land developer trying to destroy Pop’s long-running Snowy Peaks business. Justice is serviced in the end!!
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