Ferraday suspects Vaslov, while Jones points to Anders. Jones asserts it was no accident and Ferraday discovers evidence of sabotage. The extra weight causes the submarine to nosedive, which is only arrested as the boat reaches crushing depth. When the inner torpedo hatch is opened to load it, sea water rushes in, flooding the compartment. Ferraday instead orders a torpedo shot to fracture the ice. The submarine sails beneath the thick Arctic pack ice but is unable to break through with its conning tower. After setting sail, a helicopter delivers Captain Anders, a strict officer who takes command of the Marines, and an old comrade of Jones, Boris Vaslov, a Russian defector and spy. Marine platoon join the Tigerfish while in dock. An imperious British intelligence agent, "Mr.
He is told only about the ice station incident. Commander James Ferraday, captain of the American nuclear attack submarine USS Tigerfish stationed at Holy Loch, Scotland, is ordered by Admiral Garvey of Naval Intelligence to rescue the survivors, outside the normal chain of command, with confirming orders through regular channels to follow. Little can be wrung from them beyond that there was a fire and casualties in some sort of disaster. Immediately afterwards distress calls begin to be broadcast from Ice Station Zebra. A person approaches, guided by a homing beacon, while a second person secretly watches from nearby. The original music score is by Michel Legrand.Ī satellite re-enters the atmosphere and ejects a capsule, which parachutes to the Arctic near a British scientific weather station moving with the ice pack named Drift Ice Station Zebra, approximately 500 kilometres (320 mi) northwest of Station Nord, Greenland in the Arctic Ocean ice pack. The film was photographed in Super Panavision 70 and presented in 70 mm Cinerama in premiere engagements. Both have parallels to real-life events that took place in 1959.
Burnett, loosely based on MacLean's 1963 novel. The screenplay is by Alistair MacLean, Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W.
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.
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