USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 nominations total
Jonathan Goldsmith
- Russian Aide
- (as Jonathan Lippe)
Storyline
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- TriviaIn the era before VCRs, Howard Hughes would call the Las Vegas TV station he owned and demand they run this particular movie. Hughes so loved this film that it aired on his Las Vegas station over 100 times during his lifetime.
- GoofsNot only was file footage of a US F4 Phantom used instead of a USSR MIG-21, the clip used was obviously of an aircraft on short final approach as the landing gear and flaps were in the landing position. Even if the type of air snatch represented could be done with an F4 or a MIG (with its flaps and landing gear down to give it the slowest possible air speed above a stall) the craft lacked the distinctive V-shaped whisker poles protruding off the nose that the Fulton retrieval system had evolved to use by the 1960s.
- Quotes
David Jones: The Russians put our camera made by *our* German scientists and your film made by *your* German scientists into their satellite made by *their* German scientists.
- Alternate versionsOriginally shown in theaters with an opening overture, which has been restored for the 2005 DVD release.
- ConnectionsEdited into Fer-de-Lance (1974)
Featured review
The Cold War Is Gone, But This Movie Is Still Good
Commander James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), the captain of the nuclear submarine USS Tigerfish, receives the assignment to get three persons to North Pole: the civilian David Jones (Patrick McGoohan), the Russian deserter Boris Vaslov (Ernest Borgnine) and the marine Capt. Leslie Anders (Jim Brown). Their secret mission is to recover an American film from an English camera in a Russian spy satellite, which felt close to the Ice Station Zebra. The persons who work in the station are not responding to the radio call and nobody knows what might have happened with them. Along the voyage of USS Tigerfish, there is some sabotage on board meaning that probably one of the new passengers is a Russian spy. A tense and cynical end finishes a long but attractive story. Although the cold war is gone in the present days, this movie is still a good film. Rock Hudson and Patrick McGoohan have a great performance. My vote is seven.
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- claudio_carvalho
- Nov 13, 2003
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- Eisstation Zebra
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- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $76
- Runtime2 hours 28 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.20 : 1
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