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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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John Sturges
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Actors:
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Tony Bill,
Joseph Bernard,
Sherwood Price,
Murray Rose,
Lee Stanley,
Rock Hudson,
Ernest Borgnine,
Patrick McGoohan,
Jim Brown,
Lloyd Nolan,
Alf Kjellin,
Gerald S. O'Loughlin,
Ted Hartley,
Ron Masak,
John Orchard
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Duration:
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152 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)80.5
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Plot Summary:
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Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: find out about David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Salt-water with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a on good terms Russian, and the troupe of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Rod to rescue the team of Drift Ice Depot Zebra, a weather station at the top of the exceptional. The mission takes on new and dangerous twists as the party finds out that all is not as it seems at Zebra, and that someone disposition stop at nothing to prevent the mission from being completed.
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Great Book
Great Film, the writer is fantastic, Alister Mclean is a fantastic writer. I have all his books and will make an attempt to see all those that got turned into Film. Well worth a read and a watch.
You say Zebra, I say Zeebra
Very much a Sunday afternoon film, this is the kind of big, inflexible entertainment that begs the adjective 'sturdy'. It works because of the worthwhile combination of slightly unimaginative but utterly reliable professionals - the page-turning novelist Alistair MacLean, and the crisp, muscular action director John Sturges. None of MacLean's novels are classics, and few of Sturges' films are unalloyed masterpieces ('The Great Escape' or 'The Magnificent Seven' succeed through stellar casts and incomparable music from Elmer Bernstein rather than the solid direction). However, all of MacLean's books are good fun, and all of Sturges' films are workmanlike but entertaining.
This is no exception - Rock Hudson is the tough sub commander, Patrick M...
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