Ice Station Zebra

– A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes i..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.60 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 28 Minutes
Release Year:
1968
Ice Station Zebra (1968)

A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.

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Producing Country:
USA
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Ice Station Zebra (1968) - Trailer

Release Date:

23 Oct 1968

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
G – General Audiences

All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.

Director:

John Sturges

Writer:

Alistair MacLean (novel), Douglas Heyes (screenplay), Harry Julian Fink (screen story)

Main Actors:

Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown

Plot:

Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world. The mission takes on new and dangerous twists as the crew finds out that all is not as it seems at Zebra, and that someone will stop at nothing to prevent the mission from being completed.

Production:

MGM Home Entertainment

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%