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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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 6762
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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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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
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 An unrevealed plot February 26, 2010
callcam
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some good excitement through an unrevealed turn of events. Good acting. Fast shipping.
 Hudson Makes Captain January 31, 2010
David Brahinsky (ABQ in NM)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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)
1 out of 3 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)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent picture, like this are not made any longer ! I do reccommend also Where Eagles Dare
Alfredo
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