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  • Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Lloyd Nolan, Jim Brown
  • Directors: John Sturges
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 2 May 2005
  • Run Time: 139 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007SMDT6
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,234 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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John Sturges's adaptation of Alistair MacLean's novel stars Rock Hudson as submarine commander James Ferraday. When a weather-monitoring station near the North Pole is nearly destroyed by fire, he's ostensibly sent to find out what went wrong. But since he's been ordered to bring along Capt. Leslie Anders (Jim Brown) and a platoon of Marines, British agent David Jones (Patrick McGoohan), and Russian defector Boris Vaslov (Ernest Borgnine), he realises he's being kept in the dark about the true nature of the mission. Eventually it becomes clear that the USS Tigerfish is in a race with a Russian sub to recover reconaissance film crucial to national defence that was being carried aboard a spacecraft that crashed near the polar ice cap. When the sub is sabotaged--causing it to sink perilously close to a depth that would lead to an explosion--it becomes clear that a double agent is on board, but Ferraday doesn't have enough evidence to arrest anyone. Although the film is often remembered as the one chosen for ad nauseam viewing by Howard Hughes, it's a well-made combination of action and suspense, boasting a fine score by Michel Legrand.

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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cold War heats up on the ice!, 11 Oct 2005
By Deborah MacGillivray "Author," (US & UK) - See all my reviews
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This movie has a strong star name cast - Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, Rock Hudson and Jim Brown. McGoohan is brilliant as ever. A perfectionist of an actor, he once again is play a Brit super-spy (Secret Agent, Prisoner). It's a role he is comfortable with and he brings his subtle, yet incisive touches to conjur this character alive. Borgnine, never gives less than 110% to a role is perfect at the anti-Russian Russian. Brown to fierce as the man no one really likes and suspects he might be more than he pretends. Hudson is the weakest link. His lines were written to come out of an actor with the same power and presence as McGoohan and Borgnine - Robert Mitchum. Had Mitchum played the role this movie would have been dead on target. Against McGoohan and Borgnine, Hudson shows he had all the range from A-B. In the very dramatic scene where McGoohan is telling how to wreck a sub, he is dead on perfect - every word every gesture. Hudson gives his rebuttal and comes across as trying to echo McGoohan's strength. Mitchum could have looked McGoohan in the eye and it would have been a long staring contest before either blinked!

It's a race to the North Pole to reach a weather station that has gone out of contact after a camera that contained spy film lands there. You have the Russians rushes to reach there, and the US group with their multinational spies trying to make it there first.

Great adventure from start to finish a good adaptation of Alistair MacLean's best-selling book.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Alister Maclean thriller hits the right notes but at the wrong pace, 3 Dec 2006
By Mr. Stephen Kennedy "skenn1701a" (Doha, Qatar) - See all my reviews
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The director, John Sturges, was unsurpassed at perfectly paced ensemble movies full of stars - The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape... Here, he is called upon to make a taut thriller from the effective MacLean story, and while the end result is an undeniably entertaining cold war thriller, it has a little too much flab round the edges to work as well as it should.
As a spy thriller, there is just enough to make an exciting 1 hour 30 minute movie - not the 2 ½ hour one on display here. But Sturges still has his moments, even if he is all at sea (sorry) without the ensemble cast. The scene with the sabotaged torpedo works well, and the tense stand off at the end makes Hudson finally look involved with the story.
Age has not been terribly kind to the movie, with the ice shots looking unconvincing the way studio set snow scenes normally do, and let's not mention the poor optical effects for the model planes. However, the movie gains a huge amount from having a real submarine to play with, giving a sense of reality that offsets the studio bound scenes. The casting may seem a little odd (Ernest Borgnine as a Russian??) but works surprisingly well - especially McGoohan who really fills the big screen, at a time when he was actually still filming `The Prisoner' on the small screen.
This DVD version has added the Overture music at the beginning and the intermission, which although quite a good score hardly seems worthwhile. Extras are sparse - a vintage documentary on the second unit director is interesting, but leaves you wondering where the story of the making of the movie might have gone. Why was Hudson called in to play the submarine captain? What involvement did Maclean have to make his original story get changed so much by Douglas Heyes?
All in all, a good entertaining Sunday afternoon watch, but thank goodness for DVD technology which allows a pause for stretching the legs in the middle - you'll need it, and want it too, as you're unlikely to be glued to the screen.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ice Station Zebra is a cool movie, 9 Sep 2007
By Mr. Terry D. Jarvis - See all my reviews
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This movie is a typical classic sunday aternoon type movie.
The Dvd has the new digital and sound transfer in 5.1 surround sound it has its original Overture,Entre'act,Intermission,Exit Music which you only get on dvd.To accompany the dvd i nice little 6 minute documentry o the cinematograpthy of the film it has 3 trailers one is Ice Staion Zebra others are Bad day at black rock and Giant.
This is for fans of cold war movies,people who like lots of snow in a movie and this film is one of only 4 movies to not have women speaking in the movie others are (Great Escape,Lawrence of Arabia,Resovior Dogs).
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