Bear Island (film)

Bear Island is a 1979 BritishCanadian thriller film loosely based on the novel Bear Island by Alistair MacLean. It was directed by Don Sharp and starred Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee and Lloyd Bridges.

While the interiors were shot in Pinewood Studios outside London, the outdoor scenes were shot at Stewart, British Columbia and at Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, depicting a much more dramatic landscape than the real Bear Island offers.According to the book, The Hollywood Hall of Shame, it was the most expensive film ever made in Canada up till then. Of the budget, 3.3 million came from the British arm of Columbia Pictures,million from Selkirk Film Holdings, 1.8 million from the Toronto Dominion Bank, 1.2 million from the Bank of Montreal, and 100,000 from the Canadian Film Development Corporation. ........

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