Bear Island [1979]

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Motivated by the classic surfer's relentless quest for the perfect wave, they travel to the remote Norwegian island of Bjornoya (Bear Island).

Die Bäreninsel in der Hölle der Arktis" ist ein Abenteuerfilm mit Krimiplot, dem es zu keiner Sekunde gelingt, Spannung zu erzeugen. The only person who has watched Ice Station Zebra more than me is Howard Hughes and I'd run him close. I still have a copy of an article that appeared on Lee in our weekly TV Guide that came with the newspaper in my hometown. Not that you had much of a chance to hear it, as his character wound up vanishing early on, before even establishing himself as a possible suspect for the evildoers behind the apparent sabotage of the scientists’ investigation.It is seen in hands of several characters including Lechinski ( Christopher Lee) and Frank Lansing ( Donald Sutherland). I think the isolation of the wintery yet deadly surroundings open up all kinds of possibilities for filmmakers.

MacLean can certainly capture claustrophobia and a paranoia in his writing but often that – and the pace of his stories – fails to translate. The film went a million dollars over budget, which Sharp says was the first time it had happened in his career.Three brothers go to remote Bear Island (Bjørnøya) in the Barents Sea to find the perfect wave; travelling with a surfboard, a snowboard, a paraglider and food found in supermarket trash can. It stars Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Lloyd Bridges, Bruce Greenwood, Candace O'Connor and was distributed by United Artists. Radio masts collapse, explosives are used to create deadly avalanches, a generator blows up, but who is the saboteur who seeks the elusive gold? This is especially the case with Sutherland who sounds as though he has been dubbed, all emotion being taken out of his voice: the result is very strange: the character is deeply involved in solving the mystery, but the actor sounds as though he doesn't care.

Except for Cannon’s little-seen RIVER OF DEATH, released to a handful of theaters in 1989, BEAR ISLAND was the last adaptation of an Alistair MacLean novel to play on the big screen. Filmed in British Columbia and Alaska, the location shoot is beautiful and I’d love to see more winter shoots in locations like this. They may not reprint the later novels, which were written with collaborators working from outlines and notes from MacLean, but the great years of the beginning and middle of his career are well-represented.Espionagethriller from 1979 that takes place on a norwegian island near Spitzbergen but was filmed mainly in Canada and Alaska.

The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a violent, multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are whom they claim to be. Later, Lansing finds an underwater entrance to the U-boat base, where he finds his father's submarine with his remains still inside it.Finally we have Lloyd Bridges who is a friend to Sutherland and his partner when lesser known actors begin turning up dead. His next novel of The Guns of Navarone (1957), still considered one of the giants in the very large and good field of thrillers based retrospectively in World War II. Lansing and Rubin disobey instructions and venture into the area near the U-boat base but someone triggers an avalanche using explosive charges, killing Rubin.