Ice Aces (1948) 

** 1/2 (out of 4) 

Pete Smith short has him taking his cameras to L.A. where an ice capades show is in town. He goes behind the scenes to a rehearsal where three skaters, including Donna Atwood, are practicing tricks for the next years show. Fans of ice-skating will probably enjoy this short a lot more than those who aren't fans of the sport. We do get some nice, slow-motion footage of various stunts being done and we even get some great shots of trick jumps and some more dangerous stuff. All of that is fine but there's very little meat to this film as that's pretty much all we get. Again, fans of the sport will find that to be enough and would make for a real reason to watch this. The typical Smith jokes are here with some of them being funny but most aren't too well written.

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Stars of the Ice-Capades rehearse for next year's show.

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