Hard to find Bear Island from the master of spy-thriller Alistair MacLean's novel, is too much overlooked picture as its reputation suggest, it takes place at far off and frozen Norwegian Bear Island nearby artic circle, where has an UN's research climatic station lead by a notorious German scientist Dr. Otto Geran (Richard Widmark) and an international team of expert scientists studying the climates changes worldwide which is behind of the melting of polar ice caps, turns out that such remote place was in WWII German's outpost of U-boats, also spread some whispers about a Nazi's gold hidden somewhere in the island.
Just on arrival on Bear Island US's station the German descendant Frank Lansing (Donald Sutherland) together the American Smithy (Lloyd Bridges) and also from Iron Curtain the bleak Polish Lechinski (Christopher Lee) teaming up with researchers on the former Nazi's base, there Lansing is introduced with Norwegian Dr. Heddi Lindquist (Vanessa Redgrave), as expect each one has a reason to stay there, the Nazi gold, however Lansing actually is the son the former Captain of U-Boat 351, he supposedly wanna knows about his old dad died on WWII, the forthcoming events will baffled him, meanwhile some weird accidents start to happen whenever someone is alone or in pairs, then came up the code name Celda that means the unknown leader behind of all tragic events.
Alistair Maclean is one my favorite spy-thriller writer, he wrote on similar freeze environment another plot as on Ice Station Zebra, magnificently shot on the vastness of Canadian frosty landscape, also the gloomy atmosphere on U-Boat submarine cave, it made a perfect backdrop to delve into a spy-hunt-thriller, criminally underrated.
Thanks for reading
Resume:
First watch: 1986 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.
Just on arrival on Bear Island US's station the German descendant Frank Lansing (Donald Sutherland) together the American Smithy (Lloyd Bridges) and also from Iron Curtain the bleak Polish Lechinski (Christopher Lee) teaming up with researchers on the former Nazi's base, there Lansing is introduced with Norwegian Dr. Heddi Lindquist (Vanessa Redgrave), as expect each one has a reason to stay there, the Nazi gold, however Lansing actually is the son the former Captain of U-Boat 351, he supposedly wanna knows about his old dad died on WWII, the forthcoming events will baffled him, meanwhile some weird accidents start to happen whenever someone is alone or in pairs, then came up the code name Celda that means the unknown leader behind of all tragic events.
Alistair Maclean is one my favorite spy-thriller writer, he wrote on similar freeze environment another plot as on Ice Station Zebra, magnificently shot on the vastness of Canadian frosty landscape, also the gloomy atmosphere on U-Boat submarine cave, it made a perfect backdrop to delve into a spy-hunt-thriller, criminally underrated.
Thanks for reading
Resume:
First watch: 1986 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.