Ice Station Zebra

[CaveJohnsonAperture]

Howard Hughes' favorite movie, plus Patrick Mcgoohan in it, could it be any better?

[velouric]

Howard Hughes

[CaveJohnsonAperture]

@velouric Its my favorite movie

[velouric]

@CaveJohnsonAperture Sorry i'm schizoid

[MaximusCrow8]

не ходите янки в ссср гулять!

[coskuntoktamis]

I have seen this film God only knows how many times....by jove...I`ll see it again and again!!

[kcolpaer]

Mr. Elden, below, is correct--this film should be compared to its contemporaries, not "modern" titles. Its later Cinerama version was not the 3-camera/3-projector original that yielded such features as 1963's "How The West Was Won". By 1968, MGM had purchased the Cinerama name and used it to release single-strip 65MM features. I've also caught another "Goof" heretofore unmentioned--at DIS Zebra, no one's breath vaporizes. Still, I love this film and watch it every cold January.

[Cybopath]

What ever happened to the war Action-Adventures and Thrillers? Guns of Navarnoe, Dirty Dozen etc War films these days are so bleak. 

[bogercs]

STATION!!!!!!

[kingofallwhites]

ICE STATION ZEBRA! 100 men go down... but 50 couples come up! But it isn't gay if you close your eyes...

ICE STATION ZEBRA!

[jb5532]

I think it, along with 2001, were the last movies filmed in Cinerama

[jg2904]

@RichardElden However boring you may find it, the movie was shot on 70mm film, starred numerous Academy Award nominees/winners, and was helmed by a bankable director (aka probably the equivalent of around 50 million today in above-the-line costs alone)--hardly what one would consider a "low budget". The special effects were also (at the time) very state-of-the-art, even competing against '2001' for the 1968 Oscar in that category. At least try to base your arbitrary slander on some facts.

[YouAreQuiteRight]

Borgnine in April 2010.

Born Ermes Effron Borgnino

January 24, 1917 (age 94)

Hamden, CT U.S.

Occupation Actor

[kicksit1980]

Thumbs up if you looked this movie up because of "Breaking Bad".

[bf2lover42]

@AlchemicGnosis Your comment made my life.

[glassineheart]

@RichardElden why are you so obsessed with gay men? look in the mirror, fucker. you are garbage.

[glassineheart]

@RichardElden i hope you fucking rot, you cheap piece of shit. sincerely, die in a fucking fire.

[CYBERVISIONSdotCom]

The reason I joined the U.S. Submarine Force - even made it to the North Pole in '86. Damn I miss the Cold War......

[ominousfeeling23]

Wow. Apparently Howard Hughes became obsessed with this movie in 1968, had it on a continuous loop running in his house and ended up watching it 150 times :0

[ermaslv44]

the danish madsen m50 submachine gun makes and apperance in this movie

[InformationMinister]

This was the favorite film of Howard Hughes. He once watched it over 150 times having the movie set on a continuous loop. True story.

[cremeofthereich]

@RichardElden I'll watch this film today, hopefully you will get your own diagnosis of (preferably ass) cancer before the end credits run. If not, well there's always the knowledge that a putrid stink comes out of your shit laced cock sucking mouth that will sustain us for always!!!!

[cbrazier2]

@RichardElden Your a cunt.

[HarveyDentLives]

Howard Hughes' favorite movie!

[chris91wd]

jim brown, well thats ironic! hirr hirr hirr.. im such a bad person :( and a racist..

[elijah5674]

This is a movie I'd love to see remade, but now that the Soviet Union is no more it doesn't make much sense to younger audiences.

[delbard1]

Your notice the fallowing:  One "Soviet Flight" are Phantom jets (2:14). Much of the Arctic outside was done on a sound stage. I noticed it when the Soviet paratroopers dropped. The Music was used in a 1976 movie "Logan's Run".

[spacepatrolman]

@delbard1 They used the music in logans run until the electronic music was ready

[kcolpaer]

Like the director, John Carpenter, I never seem to tire of this film. Just watched it again two weekends in a row.

[Covertwalrus]

I love this film - Even before the revelation about Rock Hudson.

Which does bring new meaning to his line :"We'll just have to blow our way out . . . "

[speeta]

McGoohan angrily slams his fist on the table and causes the teacup to jump. Gee, is he "resigning" again?

[rainbowfirewave]

Howard Hughes became obsessed with this movie and watched it 150 times in a row.

[DANATANLOVER]

Great movie.

[burtonreid]

Acting is good , but it is boring

[Durermac]

Let me guess: Jim Brown was the mole.

[JuanMacready]

This film was a boring piece of crap.

[LWRCftw]

Tigership III? It was called the Dolphin.

[LWRCftw]

@paullubliner umm no the nautilus was from 20,000 leagues under the sea.

[rac000n]

@JuanMacready

It's not Citizen Kane but for an uncomplicated film it kept me entertained all the way through. At no point did I think 'I want this film to finish'. That's what the producers set out to achieve.

[rac000n]

Bloody good film. Obviously back then the trailers give away the entire film :(

[JuanMacready]

@rac000n Good film? It was a piece of shit.

[moralllo]

2:18 lol wtf happend

[laurelbush]

@moralllo just watched the film, he hit the light switch.

[moralllo]

@laurelbush no just befor it, he suposedly hit him with aa crowbar but you can tell it wasnt evan near his face

[neilzep]

Howard hughe's fav movie

[luridplanet]

It's actually very good...I noticed right away that there are NO women in this film. A bunch of guys in a sub with Rock Hudson - hmmm...

[Banner1979]

Pat McGoohan once again playing a badass. :)

[Roadracer987654321]

@Banner1979

Patrick Mc'Goohan is Dead.

[Banner1979]

@Roadracer987654321 Yep, I know.  I was referring to the clip.

[arbmust]

For another view of such locations and activities, check out "Attitude Adjustment of Sergeant Az Hole" and "The Fortune of Stan Maslowski".

[000266617]

I just read Howard Hughes became obsessed with this movie--watching it continuously non stop for a very great period

[NamathTheLegend]

Howard Hughes' favorite film. He watched it hundreds of times. Before he went nuts from OCD Howard Hughes was a GENIUS>

[rocksmeller99]

@NamathTheLegend

according to wikipedia, Hughes had this film on a continuing loop in his private theater and ran it constantly, while drinking orange juice and urinating in the empty bottles (see "Aviator")

[JamiesonKnowlton]

I've seen this movie more times than howard hughes

[JuanMacready]

An overlong and boring movie.

[johnrunion]

this was howard hughes's favorite film. he used to screen it at his home all the time.

[xsaab93x]

I´ve heard that too that this was Howard Hughes favourite movie. He must have played it more than a hundred times. I´m going to watch it for myself to see what he did like so much.

[rayssonation]

When this came out in 1968,it became one of the top ten highest grossing films at the boxoffice,and it was one of those movies that became one of MGM's roadshow attractions that was huge in budget,huge in cast and huge with its audiences that went to see it. Shown in Super Panavision 70 and was presented in Cinerama. Not to mention,it resurrected Rock Hudson's career as a top boxoffice star in 1968.

[melshorse]

A film to help fall asleep.

[theironclads]

I wish someone would produce a big budget espionage thriller like this terrific movie.

[FrankClanton]

This boring, badly acted movie was a piece of fucking CRAP.

[zliminator]

I read the book twice when I was like 10 or 11. Much better the book was.

[PingPong440]

@zliminator completely and totally agreed

[SqnCommanderG]

Alistair Maclean was an extermely fine writer of action. spy and war stories with a twist. See Where Eagles Dare to understand plot twisting at its best.

Love the bit in the film when suddenly Mig 21s metamorphose into F4 Phantoms, now that is an achievement. Detente indeed.

[The6000Sabre]

The American F-4's responded to the area later due to storms in the west. The Russian Mig 21's arrived first.

[neweast1]

no wonder this was howard hughes favorite movie.

[PeterFirthFan]

Well he was mental.

[neweast1]

well yes,but a genius and a real patriot believe it or not.he helped the cia tremendously.today he would have said to be ocd.........

[FrankClanton]

He was bisexual too.

[snowgirl1052]

Patrick McGoohan made this movie. Without his acting skills and charisma, this movie would have been mediocure.

[perfgeek]

Ah, the movie was really made by those Russian F-4 Phantom IIs :)

[The6000Sabre]

The F-4's were the US responding to the area. Late because of a storm in the west.

[robertohellodude]

I disagree PeterFirthFan, I think its a brilliant movie not only then, but still. It dipicts really well the cold war situation. Patrick McGoohan is at his best, not to mention Rock Hudson.

[PeterFirthFan]

An overlong, boring, low budget, studio-bound film.

[jxwhee]

didn't Howard Hughes watch this movie 150 times in a row once?

[spacepatrolman]

@jxwhee yes the next thing that happened that was wierd was clifford irving had his wife and nina van pallandt plugging his phony howard hughes autobiography around because he was a known writer ,he wrote a bonanza episode fredrick of the folk duo nina and fredrick was murdered when drug pushers stole his boat nina was on the cover of life and acted in the movie the long goodbye with jim bouten the knuckleball pitcher/sports caster who wrote ball 4 and other books ,has a website.

[lincsposter]

A British film written by AM! Based on his novel! QED!

[neemz2000]

Ermmm.... surely the real inspiration for Carpenter's "The Thing" is the 1951 original. film, directed by Howard Hawks. Or indeed, the short story on which both are based, "Who Goes There?" (1938) by John W. Campbell (famous editor of Astounding Science Fiction/Analog magazine).

Campbell wrote his story under the alias of "Don A. Stuart".

The setting of "Zebra" at the North Pole is a mighty tenuous connection to base that kind of theory on.

[cfjackson123]

Yeah lol thanks for inspiring a remake of something that already existed.

[LTopomcFly]

I think this is the real inspiration for John Carpenter's "The Thing"

[maureencora1]

What did Patrick McGrowen to the say to the KGB officer near the end of the movie in Russian? and in 1960s the Black guy always get killed.

[kovalitch]

@maureencora1:You may know the answer after 2 years! but Jones says to the Russian Commander, Do Svidanya = Until we meet again.

It's just to let him know that he understands Russian and that they will probably encounter each other in the future. That is why the Russian is momentary unnerved.

My American girlfriend and I use this phrase to end phone calls, I am English in spite of my username:)

[TigerMoth49]

Ice Station Zebra is based on a book by Alistair MacLean which is what the 1968 film is based on. Ice Station by Matthew Reilly is a completely different story all together!

[Lezbot2000]

omg what is this, the book ice station by Matthew Reilly is like a WAY WAY better!!!!!

[jesscgirl101]

I Fink this is nothing like ice station my matthew reilly and to say it is is an insult to his writing!!!!

it looks old an pridictable which ice station is not.

[tsayad1986]

This reminds me of the book 'Icestation' by Matthew Reilly

[TheDemonPazuzu]

The novel was one billion trillion times better than that sad sack of a film.

[rayssonation]

In 1968,"Ice Station Zebra" was indeed a well-planned executive nail biting thriller.

This was one of Rock Hudson's biggest hits. Worth seeing!!! The way to experience this movie,is seeing in the theatres when it came out in 1968,seeing in in CInerama and Super Panavision 70.

[delbard1]

i would like to see the satatile re-entry animation sequense. if you look closely, you can see the Ice station scenes were shot on a sound stage

[literaryman]

Not to knock the production values as this is one of my favorite tetosterone driven films from my early childhood but one doesn't have to look too closely. I think the obvious stageyness is part of its charm.

[KieranOG]

W. T. F...

[cellewel]

Howard Hughes watched this movie 150 times

[donnyab]

great idea but any idea why ?

[snowgirl1052]

In fact, I think the others were underacting. Patrick McGoohan was giving them an acting lesson.

[snowgirl1052]

I disagree, I loved Patrick McGoohans delivery in that scene. That movie would have been bland without him.

[doomrules08]

Hell yes! Those morons below don't know what they're talkin' about!:)

[belzebutt68]

It looks very gay... I wonder why?

[Comicvajra]

fighting 2 enemies - them & us! classic cold war paranoia. Good film though & McGoohan was a grand actor.

[ObamaRules4Ever]

One of the worst movies ever.

[trentisdibble07]

looks really stupid o_O

[Winston2004]

boring

[fokjock]

"Maintain Revolutions!"

[722treered]

from wikipedia:

Tigerfish (SSN-509) was portrayed in the movie by the diesel-electric Guppy IIA submarine USS Ronquil (SS-396) when filming took place in August 1967.

[elroto]

The Mig-21 models look good, only one major omission. The Mig-21 sucks gas like a cheap whore. For this mission they would have had at least the larger centerline tank attached. Even then the range is maybe 700nm.

[RubberIceCream]

or a backfire bomber for mid-air refueling. a? we used the KC-135 for it, no doubt they had something close.

no gaps my man, no gaps. The first shot of the MIGs was bad then it was edited to break them apart.

[donnyab]

thank you for that clarification

[The6000Sabre]

The Migs likely used drop tanks.

[Airportxtreme]

Is this movie based on a book or anything and if so can i get the Authors name????

[722treered]

the author is alistair maclean, the book is same title, also see Guns of Navorone and Satan Bug..

ps. the last couple of four plane formations look like F-4 Phantoms.

[RubberIceCream]

They are.

[722treered]

thanks. rented the dvd, still great movie. my favorite scene is 'our german scientists, your german sceintists, there german scientists'

[jojoflynnlucylynn]

alistair maclean is really cool!

[subguy688]

YEs, Konfuusio ........It is An SKATE CLASS boat!

---You are CORRECT!

& to all the other........."wanna be" sub people.....get a Life!

It was [only] an Diesel Electric, of the "surface running shots"! the interiors were from NUCLEAR! So >>was the BIG MODEL of the SKATE !

[Konfuusio]

Some shots of the submarine were used for the '78 disaster film "Gray Lady Down". I thought the sub was Skate-class.

[rainydayz19]

Excellant clip. McGoohan rocks!

[themarsvolta1227]

isnt this the movie Howard Hughes watched endlessly before his death

[RubberIceCream]

Yes.

[elroto]

The actual submarine class of the boat in this movie live shots was a diesel sub. I think a Gato class.

[clpsw7]

Yea it was a diesel boat but not a Gato, maybe a post war diesel. Do the hull numbers match anything. Course you could be right.

[RubberIceCream]

The under shots are Balao.

[kidstl]

poor rock hudson, shame he went out looking like a zommbie....

[binorwin]

Magoonhan was as crazy as Port Merion, but in a good way!!! Ice Station Zebrra (Station 211) was at the South Pole!

[elroto]

the boat used for this movie was actually a diesel electric submarine

[Jolar70]

"...put another torpedo in the spout, blow a hole in the ice, and GET ME THERE!!! I feel like Patrick McGoohan's entire career was based on a massive volcanic temper just beneath the surface. God bless the man, strange and magnificent!

[Carlota1840]

McGoohan's my favorite actor, but in that scene he does a sad piece of overacting. Give me a break.

[Jolar70]

I disagree, Carlota, only because it's one of the most surprising deliveries in the film and I have a feeling it was a surprise for Hudson too, since he jumps at the line! I agree that it's maybe over-the-top, but, with an otherwise bland Hollywood script, it's a raw moment. And, of course, R.I.P. Mr. McGoohan! You were a flawlessly class act.

[Carlota1840]

Yeah, well, maybe you're right, Jolar. In any case, thanks for letting me know he died last Tuesday. I wasn't aware.

[gaIIery]

Clint Eastwood used shots of the submarine from "ISZ" for his 1982 action movie "Firefox".