Ice Station Zebra |  | Director: John Sturges
Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 3908
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 150 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD65248D
ISBN: 0790747723
UPC: 012569524828
EAN: 9780790747729
ASIN: B0006B2A42
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1968
Release Date: January 11, 2005
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Out 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
Product Description
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: G
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 Hudson Makes Captain January 31, 2010
David Brahinsky (ABQ in NM)
Rock Hudson was always a better actor than many gave him credit for, he was so believable in any role, at this time he finished "Seconds" some felt that seconds was he best film, I content movies like "Zebra" are more difficult you can say that Hudson is in his element it's tough to play yourself, when we all know Rock wasn't captain but he connivence he was the captain of the boat. That's true acting, See "Ice Station Zebra" you will not be disappointed.
Great movie! August 17, 2009
hblack (Springfield, VA USA)
I usually like a book more than the movie. In this case the movie fully lived up to the book on which it is based. The cast is excellent, and the story moves well. I get some movies from Netflix, but this one is well worth buying.
 5 stars until the last 5 minutes July 4, 2009
A. Jacob (Singapore)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you have read the book, then watch the movie until the 140th minute and stop. You will thank me for it.
Until then, the movie is a taut thriller, and Rock Hudson really towers and carries the movie thru.
ice station zebra June 9, 2009
Alfredo Garcia Marino (Bayamon, Puerto Rico United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent picture, like this are not made any longer ! I do reccommend also Where Eagles Dare
Alfredo
Another All-time Favorite. June 6, 2009
Gary P. Cohen (Staten Island, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
About the only thing I had in common with Howard Hughes is that we both loved this movie. Hughes allegedly watched it 17 times one weekend. I saw it at its original reserved-seat run at the Cinerama theater on Broadway in New York and have watched it numerous times since then (although not as much as Hughes.)
The name Alistair MacLean is not that well-remembered today. However he was the king of action novelists during the 1950s and '60s. Many of his books were made into films, the most famous being "The Guns of Navarone" and its sequel "Force 10 from Navarone," "Where Eagles Dare," "Breakheart Pass" and this film. This film was supposed to re-unite his Navarone stars, Gregory Pack and David Niven. However when shooting started, they were no longer available. Instead we got Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine and Patrick McGoohan. Hudson and Borgnine are fine but it is McGoohan who steals the film as a British secret agent named "Jones" who is very similar to his John Drake "Secret Agent" TV persona. There are no female members of the cast.
The first half of the film involves the U.S. submarine's voyage under the polar ice pack to get to Zebra. It includes a terrifically suspenseful scene of a saboteur's attempt to flood the submarine while under the pack. The second half involves the locating of Zebra culminating in the U.S./Russian confrontation at the detroyed station for the secret of Ice Station Zebra.
Directed by the great John Sturges, (The Great Escape, Magnificent 7, etc.) this is an exciting and suspenseful film. It features a great score by Michel Legrand and fine special effects of the submarine journeying under the polar ice pack (great on the big screen.)It lost the special effects Oscar to 2001. The DVD features the overture, intermission music and music for exiting the theater.
Unfortunately the DVD only includes some vintage short subjects from the time the film was made. It would have been very nice for a retrospective on this fine film. While Hudson and Sturges are long-gone, McGoohan was alive until recently and Borgnine, Jim Brown (who basically stands around looking angry the entire film,) and Tony Bill are still alive.
This is a classic cold-war suspense thriller that has stood the test of time, I would love to see its eventual release on Blu-ray.
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