Bear Island (1979)
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col/scope 118m
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Donald Sutherland, Richard Widmark, Barbara Parkins, Christopher Lee
Synopsis:
Scientists and NATO representatives head towards a remote arctic island once used as a U-Boat base in answer to a distress signal from the research outpost there.
Review:
Needless to say, being Alistair MacLean, there is more to this adventure than meets the eye. As one of his denser and more atmospheric novels, it is disappointingly handled, as if by now producers were more or less ticking off the unfilmed titles: Golden Rendezvous, Force 10 from Navarone, etc. Thus, even though it is well cast it feels like one of those half-hearted espionage dramas peopled with ageing actors, and unnecessary changes are made to the plot, including for the long-suffering Miss Parkins.
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col/scope 118m
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Donald Sutherland, Richard Widmark, Barbara Parkins, Christopher Lee
Synopsis:
Scientists and NATO representatives head towards a remote arctic island once used as a U-Boat base in answer to a distress signal from the research outpost there.
Review:
Needless to say, being Alistair MacLean, there is more to this adventure than meets the eye. As one of his denser and more atmospheric novels, it is disappointingly handled, as if by now producers were more or less ticking off the unfilmed titles: Golden Rendezvous, Force 10 from Navarone, etc. Thus, even though it is well cast it feels like one of those half-hearted espionage dramas peopled with ageing actors, and unnecessary changes are made to the plot, including for the long-suffering Miss Parkins.
Country: GB/CAN
Technical: col/scope 118m
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Donald Sutherland, Richard Widmark, Barbara Parkins, Christopher Lee
Synopsis:
Scientists and NATO representatives head towards a remote arctic island once used as a U-Boat base in answer to a distress signal from the research outpost there.
Review:
Needless to say, being Alistair MacLean, there is more to this adventure than meets the eye. As one of his denser and more atmospheric novels, it is disappointingly handled, as if by now producers were more or less ticking off the unfilmed titles: Golden Rendezvous, Force 10 from Navarone, etc. Thus, even though it is well cast it feels like one of those half-hearted espionage dramas peopled with ageing actors, and unnecessary changes are made to the plot, including for the long-suffering Miss Parkins.