Ice Station Zebra G

An American nuclear sub... A sky full of Russian paratroopers... A race for the secret of Ice Station Zebra!
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  • Vintage making-of featurette The Man Who Makes the Difference
  • Remastered Sountrack in Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Trailer Gallery
  • Rated: G
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 29 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 11, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1968
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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User Ratings: 4,785
Rating: 1/4 -- If this had been a routine Saturday-afternoon thriller, it might have been fun. But it's been stretched out to roadshow length and loaded down with lots of gimmicks to conceal the thinness of the story. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004
Rating: C+ -- A conventional Cold War thriller whose flatness keeps it from being as suspenseful as it should be. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dec 27, 2006
Hokey but lavishly filmed submarine spy drama. Full Review
Classic Film and Television
Aug 16, 2012
Rating: C+ -- An uncharacteristically weak thriller-actioner from the talented director John Sturges. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Feb 14, 2013
Sadly, with the exception of 1972's Joe Kidd, Ice Station Zebra marked the end of John Sturges' career as an interesting, innovative director. Full Review
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Jan 19, 2005
A fairly tight, exciting, Saturday night adventure story that suddenly goes all muddy in its crises, so that at two crucial points, it is very difficult to know what is going on, or who knows what about it. It doesn't make much difference, though. Full Review
New York Times
Jan 8, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- Excellent old-style political thriller.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Aug 24, 2003

Description by OLDIES.com:

The U.S. nuclear sub Tigerfish churns toward the North Pole. Its mission: rescue the imperiled members of weather outpost Ice Station Zebra. On board are Cmdr. Ferraday and his crew, several unexpected arrivals with secret orders ... and enough suspicions, suspense and twists to make Ice Station Zebra an engrossing espionage thriller. The Cold War heats up as John Sturges (The Great Escape) directs Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown and more in this epic adventure nominated for two Academy Awards and featuring taut action set pieces above and below the ice. All hands to stations for excitement!

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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 realizes 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 defense 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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  • UPC: 012569524828
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