FREE ICE STATION ZEBRA PDF Alistair MacLean | 400 pages | 04 Jul 2005 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780006161417 | English | London, United Kingdom Ice Station Zebra () - Rotten Tomatoes Forgot your password? Don't have an account? Sign up here. Already have an account? Log in here. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policiesand to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. We Ice Station Zebra to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. Rate this movie. Ice Station Zebra, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. So Fresh: Absolute Must See! You're almost there! Just confirm how you got Ice Station Zebra ticket. Cinemark Coming Soon. Regal Coming Soon. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. 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, Ice Station Zebra who knows what about it. It doesn't make much difference, though. Renata Adler. 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. Roger Ebert. Robert Kotlowitz. An uncharacteristically weak thriller-actioner from the talented director John Sturges. Emanuel Levy. Michael E. A conventional Cold War thriller whose flatness keeps it from being as suspenseful as it should be. Dennis Schwartz. Philip Martin. Chuck O'Leary. Exciting murder-mystery directed by Ice Station Zebra Hudson and cast are great. Steve Crum. Rebecca Murray. Sadly, with the exception of 's Joe Kidd, Ice Station Zebra marked the end of John Sturges' career as an interesting, innovative Ice Station Zebra. Matt Bailey. Tony Toscano. Top Box Office. More Top Movies Trailers. Certified Fresh Picks. Black Mirror: Season 5. Into The Dark: Season 2. Lovecraft Country: Season 1. The Mandalorian: Season 1. Saturday Night Live: Season Orphan Black: Season 5. Watchmen: Season 1. The Walking Dead: Season Certified Fresh Pick. View All. Fall TV Log in with Facebook. Email address. Log In. First Name. Last Name. By signing up, you agree Ice Station Zebra receiving newsletters from Rotten Tomatoes. You may later unsubscribe. Create your account Already have an account? Email Address. Real Quick. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. 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Harry Julian FinkDouglas Heyes. Jan 1, Rock Hudson Cdr. James Ferraday. Ernest Borgnine Boris Vaslov. Patrick McGoohan David Jones. Jim Brown Capt. Leslie Anders. Tony Bill Lt. Russell Walker. Lloyd Nolan Admiral Garvey. Alf Kjellin Col. Gerald S. O'Loughlin Lt. Bob Raeburn. Ice Station Zebra movie review () | Roger Ebert 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 Super Panavision 70 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.