Rating: G
Length: 150 minutes

Widescreen 2.20:1 Color (Anamorphic)

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 2.0

English, French, Spanish

A nuclear submarine is sent to the the North Pole to rescue a team of scientists at Ice Station Zebra. A British agent and a squad of marines come along for the ride and, along the way, they pick up a Soviet deserter and an American Marine Captain. Apparently there is more going on here than meets the eyes.

Beautiful video considering the movies age. Great opening banter between the Captain (Hudson) and his mysterious passenger (McGoohan) who plays the annoying sneaky person extremely well. The suspense slowly builds throughout the movie and they did a good job showing how dangerous and claustrophobic life on a submarine can be.

The movie is just too long and the musical score gets really annoying. And after all the build up, the ending proved to be very anticlimactic.

• "The Man Who Makes A Difference" Vintage Making-of Featurette
• Trailer Gallery

This is a good Cold War film with a decent story and cast. I still can't get over how clear the picture is and it hasn't been restored. People that were alive during this time will appreciate the tension that existed between the US and USSR more than those who weren't.

John Sturges   [The Eagle Has Landed, The Great Escape, Joe Kidd, The Magnificent Seven, Never So Few]

Joseph Bernard - Dr. Jack Benning

Tony Bill - Lt. Russell Walker

Ernest Borgnine - Boris Vaslov

[The Dirty Dozen, Escape from New York, The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Poseidon Adventure, The Wild Bunch]

Jim Brown - Capt. Leslie Anders

[The Dirty Dozen, Mars Attacks!, The Running Man]

Ted Hartley - Lt. Jonathan Hansen

[High Plains Drifter]

Rock Hudson - Cdr. James Ferraday

[The Undefeated]

Alf Kjellin - Col. Ostrovsky

Ron Masak - Paul Zabrinczski

Patrick McGoohan - David Jones

[Braveheart, Mary Queen of Scots]

Lloyd Nolan - Admiral Garvey

Gerald S. O'Loughlin - Lt. Cdr. Bob Raeburn

John Orchard - Survivor

[Rustlers' Rhapsody]

Sherwood Price - Lt. Edgar Hackett

Murray Rose - Lt. George Mills

Lee Stanley - Lt. Mitgang