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 McGOOHAN STRIKES AGAIN December 27, 2003
Benjamin Tilley
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just finished watching this film 5 minutes ago, and I feel compelled to comment on this fantastic movie due to the impact it had upon me. Needless to say, if this film was available on DVD, I would be the first to buy it. The movie follows a sabotaged US submarine carrying a British (Patrick McGoohan) and Russian agent. One of these passengers, the viewer is forced into suspecting, is the saboteur and traitor trying to obtain the boby-trapped capsule containing a microfilm that all of the major superpowers desire. The movie maintains the viewers interest throughout, while perhaps not keeping the viewer on the edge of his/her seat. Moreover this film keeps the audience firmly interested in the transfixing storyline, concluding in a Sixth Senthesque twist finale exposing the Russian spy. While the bulk of the film is not action packed, the ongoing mystery is rivetting, and the final scene is as tense as any thriller/chiller available today exsacerbated by the Russian-American military stand-off on the ice plains near the north pole. Worth buying simply to see the ever cold and covert character portrayed by McGoohan in this and other shows, especially the unbreakable Number 6 in "The Prisoner"
 Ice Station Zebra July 14, 2004
David Robertson
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a film that is a pleasure to own in ones video library.
I for one have tried to search for a copy of this film in most of the retail outlets without success.
Is it not about time this film was released in DVD ?An excellant crew of actors who use their gifts to excite you and carry you from the beginning of the film to the end. A must to own
Could have been a stage play April 8, 2005
B. Chandler (Arlington, Texas)
From the initial credits we see that this film will have something to do with satellites, the soviets and the U.S. Looks like an accident has happened at the North Pole (Ice station Zebra). The U.S. with Brittan, and the soviets are rushing to the rescue. Both are hampered by a snow storm. The U.S. has sent a submarine to the rescue. However it looks like something covert is afoot. The submarine is being packed with marines and an unscrupulous acting character. What is the secret? Will the sub even make it to the pole? And if so what will they find? Why are the soviets so keen in helping? Because critical scenes take place in the snow our characters are color coded:
Brown furry top with brown trousers = David Jones (Patrick McGoohan)
All blue = Cmdr. Ferriday (Rock Hudson)
Brown practically furless with black and white bands = Boris Vaslov (Ernest Borgnine)
Orange and yellow = sub crew
All white with m16's = marines
All white with AK's = soviets
* You may have guest that it is a mans movie with all men * This story as adapted for the movies could make a pretty good stage play as the real action is the bantering and posturing during a face to face confrontation. Another movie adaptation from the author (Alistair MacLean) is "The Guns of Navarone" (1961). The original music for this film also stands on its own; you may want to buy the sound track.
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