'Ice Station Zebra' movie review: I have a sinking feeling about this.....
Ice Station Zebra (1968) Directed by John Sturges Screenplay by Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W.R. Burnett, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean Starring: Rock Hudson, Patrick MacGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown John Sturges' Ice Station Zebra , based on Alistair MacLean's novel and written by Douglas Heyes Harry Julian Fink, and W.R. Burnett, is a Cold War-era "restoring the balance of power" film. It focuses on a mixed bag of Navy and Marine personnel, a Russian defector, and a mysterious British agent on a risky mission to the Arctic Circle to retrieve the contents of a crashed Soviet spy satellite's cameras. On paper, this 1968 technothriller looks promising, considering it features a U.S. nuclear sub (the USS Tigerfish ), a noteworthy cast (Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick MacGoohan, and ex-football great Jim Brown), and one of those race-the-Russians-to-the-gizmo plots that would later be the heart of such novels as...