Ice Station Zebra
by John Sturges
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Actor: Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Patrick McGoohan, Rock Hudson, Tony BillDirector: John Sturges
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: James C. Pratt
Producer: John Calley
Producer: Martin Ransohoff
Writer: Alistair MacLean
Writer: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Harry Julian Fink
Writer: W.R. Burnett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-11
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Ice Station Zebra
Movie Review: THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE
Summary: 5 Stars
Join the avant-garde composers, Soviet politburo members, and eccentric millionaires who compulsively watch this movie over and over again because it is the single best movie ever made. It has the perfect formula: Submarines + Ice + Rockets + Patrick McGoohan + More Spies + Stunning Landscapes + Ernest Borgnine. Plus a moral too! And the most beautiful photography in any spy movie.
McGoohan is fantastic -- playing his standard type of character, but smoother than the original Danger Man, and not as paranoia-inducing as The Prisoner. And I'll tell you, I had to stop watching the Prisoner, not because I got too paranoid, but because I should have been more paranoid about the REAL dangers around me, and not puzzling over cute philosophical problems of identity.
One recent review here calls it a "guy movie." Now I'm not sure if that's true, but in my experience I HAVE found women not to appreciate it as much as men. Yet it isn't crass or trivial like other great guy movies. It might be -- and I'm sure this isn't "politically correct" -- that women don't see as stark a divide between being the good guy and being the bad guy, between honesty and treachery. Maybe for good reason! Maybe being put in a bind all the time means you need to be a bit more flexible.
But the key spy-hunt aspect left all my women-friends that I watched it with cold. This is even true for the last one who -- honest to goodness -- basically was a spy. How could a woman who was "dating" me as part of her private investigation business (or partnership, she worked with three others) as a way to get (successfully) incriminating evidence -- how could she fail to get worked up as the noose closes on the TRUE Russian spy? She fell asleep on the couch. Whereas even though I've watched it at least 50 times, my heart pounds anew in the same places. It's that good a movie. And with Patrick McGoohan now passed on, it is unlikely that there will ever be a spy movie this good. [59]
Summary of Ice Station Zebra
Set against the eerie snowscape of the artic north ice station zebra guards a secret that will change the balance of world power. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/27/2005 Starring: Rock Hudson Ernest Borgnine Run time: 149 minutes Rating: GOut of step with the public mood when it was released in 1968, Ice Station Zebra has held up decently as a Guy's Movie. Based on an Alistair MacLean novel, the film is half submarine picture and half spy puzzler, short on action but long on military chatter and espionage gamesmanship. Rock Hudson, looking seasoned and just a little miffed, gives one of his better performances as the captain of a nuclear sub, ordered to the Arctic to check out a disturbance at a research station on the floating ice. He doesn't know the mission, but he's stuck with mysterious passengers: haughty British agent Patrick McGoohan, back-slapping Russian operative Ernest Borgnine, and hostile Marine captain Jim Brown. McGoohan gets the film's best lines and finest fur jacket, but Brown is pretty cool in a smaller role.
John Sturges directs, with customary deliberateness; at times the movie seems to be suffering from iron-poor blood. Much of the dialogue is pretty sharp, especially in the submarine half, enough to keep you engrossed if you're in the mood for this kind of thing. When the action shifts to the ice, the studio-bound sets inevitably take their toll. It's not hard to see how this large, old-fashioned project misfired in the era of Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, but the more tantalizing question is: Why did this movie become an obsessive favorite of Howard Hughes? Maybe he liked how clean it all looks. --Robert Horton
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