Ice Station Zebra

Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 Cold War era suspense and espionage film directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The screenplay by Alistair MacLean, Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W. R. Burnett is loosely based upon MacLeans 1963 novel of the same name. Both have parallels to reallife events that took place in 1959. The film was photographed in Super Panavision 70 by Daniel L. Fapp, and presented in 70mm Cinerama in premiere engagements. The original music score is by Michel Legrand.

The scene shifts to Commander James Ferraday Rock Hudson, captain of the U.S. nuclear attack submarine USS Tigerfish SSN509, stationed at Holy Loch, Scotland. He is ordered by Admiral Garvey Lloyd Nolan to rescue the personnel of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a British civilian scientific weather station moving with the ice pack. However, the mission is actually a cover for a highly classified assignment.Ferraday welcomes aboard British intelligence agent Mr. Jones Patrick McGoohan and a Marine platoon. While underway, a SH2 Sea Sprite helicopter delivers combat commander Captain Anders Jim Brown, who takes command of the Marines, and Boris Vaslov Ernest Borgnine, an amiable Russian defector and spy, who is a trusted colleague of Jones. ........

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