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Ice Station Zebra (1968)

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Country: US
Technical: col/Panavision/Cinerama 148m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown

Synopsis:

A US submarine, accompanied by a squad of marines and a British agent, races to the North Pole, ostensibly to rescue a group of scientists after a weather station fire, but actually to recover a satellite module loaded with sensitive data.

Review:

Alistair MacLean’s pacy Cold War thriller is transmuted into a lumpen, airless production number. It looks sleek enough (until it reaches its destination and we are all too obviously back in the studio with fake snow) and McGoohan is choice as the clipped 'Mr Jones', but with Borgnine’s trademark woodenness you can smell a rat a mile off, and Legrand’s Black Beauty-style horn theme makes far too many appearances, underlining the monotony of the journey.

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Country: US
Technical: col/Panavision/Cinerama 148m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown

Synopsis:

A US submarine, accompanied by a squad of marines and a British agent, races to the North Pole, ostensibly to rescue a group of scientists after a weather station fire, but actually to recover a satellite module loaded with sensitive data.

Review:

Alistair MacLean’s pacy Cold War thriller is transmuted into a lumpen, airless production number. It looks sleek enough (until it reaches its destination and we are all too obviously back in the studio with fake snow) and McGoohan is choice as the clipped 'Mr Jones', but with Borgnine’s trademark woodenness you can smell a rat a mile off, and Legrand’s Black Beauty-style horn theme makes far too many appearances, underlining the monotony of the journey.


Country: US
Technical: col/Panavision/Cinerama 148m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown

Synopsis:

A US submarine, accompanied by a squad of marines and a British agent, races to the North Pole, ostensibly to rescue a group of scientists after a weather station fire, but actually to recover a satellite module loaded with sensitive data.

Review:

Alistair MacLean’s pacy Cold War thriller is transmuted into a lumpen, airless production number. It looks sleek enough (until it reaches its destination and we are all too obviously back in the studio with fake snow) and McGoohan is choice as the clipped 'Mr Jones', but with Borgnine’s trademark woodenness you can smell a rat a mile off, and Legrand’s Black Beauty-style horn theme makes far too many appearances, underlining the monotony of the journey.

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