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Alistair MacLean | 400 pages | 04 Jul 2005 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780006161417 | English | London, United Kingdom Ice Station Zebra () -

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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. At least I guess the story is thin. It might have been complex, and then they edited it Ice Station Zebra. That would account for the fact Ice Station Zebra the plot doesn't hold together; we're never exactly sure who the Russian spy is, or whether there are two. We discover that someone jammed a torpedo tube open and nearly sank the sub -- but we never discover who. We're told that a nuclear submarine moves from Scotland to Ice Station Zebra North Pole in three days. But how? The sub has been dispatched to the Arctic Circle to recover a piece of film from a Russian spy satellite. The Russians are also coming, but their planes are locked in by an ice storm. The sub gets there first. On board is at least one spy who wants to end the mission. Maybe more. Who knows? Rock Hudson plays the sub commander, and he is given some fairly good lines in Douglas Heyes' script. But the result of these lines and these exchanges is simply to underline what a wooden and emotionless actor Hudson is. We never for a moment care about him, or believe him. McGoohan, on the other hand, is a witty and strange actor, and he provides the Ice Station Zebra with character interest. Jim Brown has about Ice Station Zebra lines of dialog to recite, and Ernest Borgnine is saddled with a Russian accent Ice Station Zebra wouldn't believe. A lot has been claimed for the special effects of "Ice Station Zebra" - which made it disconcerting to find them so bad. An opening shot of a satellite is obviously a small-scale model and not a tenth as convincing as the space scenes in " A Space Odyssey ". Shots of the satellite capsule returning to Earth, and later shots of Russian paratroopers, are also models a few ounces in weight, landing on a table-top set. In the scenes Ice Station Zebra the submarine bridge, the horizon dips instead of the sub: We can almost see the prop men moving the painted backdrop up and down. And in the most incredible lapse of all, the scenes in the Ice Station Zebra Circle are played as if it weren't cold there. Hudson and his men start out with parkas, mufflers, goggles and the whole works. But by the time of the confrontation with the Russian commander, all the leading actors Ice Station Zebra shown bareheaded and barefaced. At Arctic temperatures, their noses would freeze, crack and fall off before they got their argument well launched. Another funny thing: When the actors talk, their breath doesn't freeze. There are, as I said, three good scenes. One is when the sub goes into an uncontrolled dive after the torpedo tube Ice Station Zebra opened. Another is when several crew members fall through the ice pack and get trapped inside cavern walls which begin to close in on them. The impact of this scene is diluted in the very next scene however, when the same crushing effect threatens the sub. Parallel action should be separated by scenes of another sort. The third good scene comes at the end, when Hudson outsmarts the Russian commander and provides a sharp, ironic ending for a dull, stupid movie. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in Inhe won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Ernest Borgnine as Boris Vaslov. Jim Brown as Capt. Patrick McGoohan as David Jones. Rock Hudson as Comdr. Reviews Ice Station Zebra. Roger Ebert April 21, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. Rebecca Sheila O'Malley. Shithouse Tomris Laffly. Wolfwalkers Brian Tallerico. Coastal Elites Christy Lemire. The Swerve Sheila O'Malley. Film Credits. Latest blog posts. Ice Station Zebra - Wikipedia

Burnettloosely based on MacLean's novel. Both have parallels to real-life events that took place in The film was photographed in by Daniel L. The original music score is by Michel Legrand. A satellite re-enters the atmosphere and ejects a capsule, which parachutes to the Arctic, approximately miles northwest of Station Nord, Greenland in the Arctic Ocean ice pack. A person approaches, guided by a homing beacon, while a second person secretly watches from nearby. Commander James Ferraday, Ice Station Zebra of the American nuclear attack submarine USS Tigerfish stationed at Holy LochScotland, is ordered by Admiral Garvey to rescue the Ice Station Zebra of a British scientific weather station moving with the ice pack named Drift Ice Station Zebrahowever, this is a cover for the real mission. British intelligence agent "Mr. Jones" and a U. Marine platoon join the Tigerfish while in dock. The submarine sails beneath the thick Arctic pack ice but is unable to break through with its conning tower. Ferraday orders a torpedo launch to break a hole in the surface. However, when the inner torpedo hatch is opened, sea water rushes in flooding the compartment causing the submarine to nose dive. The boat is only saved shortly before reaching crush depth. After an investigation, Ferraday discovers that the torpedo tube was sabotaged. Ferraday suspects Vaslov, while Jones suspects Anders. After an area of thin ice is detected, the Tigerfish breaks through to the surface. Ferraday, Vaslov, Jones, and the Marine platoon set out for Ice Station Zebra weather station in a blizzard. On arrival, they find the base almost burned to the ground and the scientists nearly dead from hypothermia. Jones and Vaslov start questioning the survivors about what happened. Jones reveals to Ferraday that he's Ice Station Zebra for an advanced experimental British camera which used an enhanced film developed by the Americans. The Soviets stole the technology and sent it into orbit to photograph locations of American missile silos. However, the satellite also recorded all the Soviet Ice Station Zebra sites as well. After a malfunction, it crashed near Ice Station Zebra in the Arctic. When Soviet and Ice Station Zebra agents Ice Station Zebra to recover the film capsule, the scientists were caught in the crossfire. Ferraday sets his crew to search for the capsule. Ice Station Zebra finds another tracking device but is knocked out by Vaslov, a Soviet double-agent and the saboteur. Anders confronts Vaslov and the two men fight before the dazed Jones shoots and kills the American Captain. Tigerfish detects approaching Soviet aircraft. Ferraday lets Vaslov use the tracker to locate the ice-buried capsule. A large force of Soviet paratroopers arrive and demand the film. After Ferraday hands over the empty container, the deception is discovered and a brief firefight occurs. In Ice Station Zebra confusion, Vaslov tries to take the film but is wounded Ice Station Zebra Jones. Ferraday orders him to give the film to the Soviets. The canister is sent aloft by weather balloon for recovery by aircraft. Moments before it is taken, Ferraday activates his own detonator, destroying the film Ice Station Zebra denying either side the locations of the other's missile silos. The Soviet colonel concedes that both his and Ferraday's missions are effectively accomplished and leaves. Tigerfish completes the rescue of the civilians. A teletype machine reports the news that the "humanitarian mission" has been an example of better cooperation between the West and the Soviet Union. The film rights to the novel were acquired the following year by producer Martin Ransohoffwho hoped to capitalize on the success of the blockbuster The Guns of Navarone by adapting another Alistair MacLean novel for the silver screen as a follow-up. Paddy Chayefskywho had just written The Americanization of Emily for Ransohoff, was hired to write the script. Sturges Ice Station Zebra borrowed from The Mirisch Company. Filming was set to begin in Aprilbut scheduling conflicts and United States Department of Defense objections over Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay, because they felt it showed "an unfair distortion Ice Station Zebra military life" that would "damage the reputation of the Navy and its personnel" [10] delayed the start. A new script was commissioned. Ice Station Zebra January MGM announced the film would be one of 13 movies it would make during the next year. Not all of these were made. Due to scheduling conflicts, the original cast was no longer available when filming began in the spring of The cast also included Australian Olympic swimmer Murray Rose. There were no women in the cast. Filming began in June The underwater scenes used a model of a Skate -class nuclear submarine. George Davishead of the art department at MGM, spent two years researching the design for the submarine. Second unit cameraman John M. Stephens developed an innovative underwater camera system that successfully filmed the first continuous dive of a submarine, which became the subject of the documentary featurette, The Man Who Makes a Difference. During filming, Patrick McGoohan had to be rescued from a flooded chamber by a diver who freed his trapped foot, saving his life. Ice Station Zebra was popular with audiences, but not on the scale of Sturges's early s work. The escalating production costs of this film, along with The Shoes of the Fisherman at the same time, led to Ice Station Zebra transfer of MGM President Robert O'Brien to Chairman of the Boardthough he resigned that position in earlyafter both films were released and failed to recoup their costs. It doesn't Ice Station Zebra much difference, though The special effects, of deep water, submarine and ice, are convincing enough—a special Super Panavision, Ice Station Zebra, claustrophobia The cast are all stock types, but the absolute end of the movie—when the press version of what happened at a Russian-American polar confrontation goes out to the world—has a solid, non-stock irony that makes this another good, man's action movie, there are no women in it to eat popcorn by. For action it has crash dives, paratroopers, Russian spies, off-course satellites, and a troop of Marines, the average age of whom seems to be fourteen. It also has Rock Hudson Patrick McGoohan Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, and enough others to field maybe three football teams. And best of all there is also some nice suspense and pacing for at least two-thirds of the movie's three-hour length. It comes apart a bit only when the mystery starts to unravel; but that is the nature of mysteries Every single Ice Station Zebra drop of bow spray can be seen as it comes pouring over the submarine's surface, caught by a camera strapped to the conning tower. There are beautiful abstract patterns made by the sub as it Ice Station Zebra its way through the North Sea, all the gleaming, meticulous, finely wrought, intricate machinery inside the sub, and huge chunks of mountainous ice hanging down from the roof of the ice cap like molars. Nothing could distract me from that screen, not even several minutes of confused story-telling at the end of the film Buy some popcorn and see the movie. He is a most accomplished actor with a three-dimensional presence all his own. Hudson comes across quite well as a man of muted strength. Borgnine's characterization is a nicely restrained one. Brown, isolated by script to a suspicious personality, makes the most of it. In AprilRoger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described it as "so flat and conventional that its three moments of interest are an embarrassment" and called it "a dull, stupid movie". He expressed disappointment that the special effects did not, in his opinion, live up to advance claims, comparing them unfavorably to the effects in A Space Odyssey. You certainly won't regret watching Ice Station Zebra once. The plot has parallels to events from April concerning a missing experimental Corona satellite Ice Station Zebra Discoverer II that inadvertently landed near SpitsbergenNorway, in the Arctic Ocean on April 13, which was believed to have been recovered by Soviet agents. Inthe United States National Reconnaissance Office declassified information stating that "an individual formerly possessing Corona access Ice Station Zebra the technical adviser to the movie" and admitted "the resemblance of the loss of the Ice Station Zebra II capsule, and its probable recovery by the Soviets" on Spitsbergen Island. They were picked up three days later by the B using the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system. Water entered at the rate of one ton per second and Thetis sank with the loss of 98 lives. In the movie, the drip cock was blocked with epoxy glue. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the film. For the novel, see Ice Station Zebra novel. Theatrical release poster by Howard Terpning. Release date. Running time. University of Wisconsin Press. Jul 17, Los Angeles Times. April 10, Wall Street Journal. April 22, The New York Times. Retrieved Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. Chicago Tribune. The Telegraph.