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Ice Station Zebra

Not who you're looking for? Others named Ice Station Zebra: 1963 thriller novel by Alistair MacLean

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Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 American espionage thriller film directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The screenplay is by Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W. R. Burnett, loosely based on Alistair MacLean's 1963 novel. Both have parallels to real-life events that took place in 1959. The film concerns a US nuclear submarine that must rush to the North Pole to rescue the members of the Ice Station Zebra.

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1968 · 2h 29m · Thriller · Adventure

TMDB 6.4/10 (194 votes)

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, is dispatched to save them.

Directed by John Sturges

Box office $5M worldwide

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John SturgesDirector

Rock Hudsonas Cdr. James Ferraday

Ernest Borgnineas Boris Vaslov

Patrick McGoohanas David Jones

Jim Brownas Capt. Leslie Anders