Bäreninsel in der Hölle der Arktis

Originaltitel: Bear Island

1979
12
1 Std. 58 Min.

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5,8/10

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Vanessa Redgrave, Donald Sutherland, and Lawrence Dane in Bäreninsel in der Hölle der Arktis (1979)

On the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during World War II, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency N.A.T.O. frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.

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Frank und Otto sind Teil einer Forschergruppe, die auf der Bäreninsel in der Arktis nach einem Schatz suchen.Frank und Otto sind Teil einer Forschergruppe, die auf der Bäreninsel in der Arktis nach einem Schatz suchen.Frank und Otto sind Teil einer Forschergruppe, die auf der Bäreninsel in der Arktis nach einem Schatz suchen.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,8/10

2861

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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An announcement at the end of the closing credits reads "Coming Soon -Alistair MacLean's Goodbye California". This movie was intended as the first in a series of Alistair MacLean adaptations, which would have included "El Dorado", "Athabasca", "Night Without End", and "The Way to Dusty Death". The next intended movie in the series, "Goodbye, California", was to be shot with a budget of between $12-$13 million. However, due to this movie's disappointing box-office performance, "Goodbye, California", and the other titles were never made by producer Peter Snell, who had bought the rights to numerous MacLean works in 1975, including ones at the time that had not even been published or written yet. Snell, however, did get Operation Eiffelturm (1980) and Der Rembrandt-Deal (1995) made for television.

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When everyone is outside after the generator explosion it is blowing a blizzard, but the flames are rising vertically with minimal wind disturbance rather than being virtually horizontal, revealing that wind machines are being used just on the area where the actors are.

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"Coming soon: Alistair MacLean's Goodbye California"

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The Region 1 DVD has certain graphic elements removed. Most notably, the view of the captain Lansing's cabin presents the captain's corpse being handcuffed to bulkhead and another corpse sitting by the desk. (Later the viewer learns it was an SS operative.) However, in the censored version only a glimpse of the captain Lansing's corpse is shown, the SS-man is totally cut out. This censorship severely interferes with the plot, as it is crucial to the novel to understand the motives of captain Lansing.

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Referenced in The Bond Essentials (2002)

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7/10

Good cast with some great locations and sets

German scientist Otto Gerran (Richard Widmark) leads an expedition to icy Bear Island - which was also a base for Nazi U-boats in WWII - for some kind of environmental research. Included in the group are fellow scientist Frank Lansing (Donald Sutherland), nurse Heddi Lindquist (Vanessa Redgrave), Russian Lechinski (Christopher Lee) and boat captain Smithy (Lloyd Bridges) among others. When they arrive at the titular location, the group discovers one of the three folks stationed there has gone missing. Before you can say TEN LITTLE INDIANS, folks start getting offed in an effort to hide the island's secret.

This is a pretty enjoyable action-mystery adaptation of Alistair MacLean's snowbound novel. The cast is all game, which is good as this must have been a hell of a production to shoot as 70% of it looks shot on location (Alaska and Canada). Director Don Sharp keeps things moving fast and, while you'll probably solve most of the mystery early on, there are still some nice twists. The production is nicely mounted, with great sets and some nice Bond-esquire snow chases. One great scene has Sutherland discovering a German U-boat and he finds the dead crew aboard it, shackled to their posts.

One interesting thing my friend who sent this to me pointed out is that this totally has a vibe of John Carpenter's THE THING. Now, of course, THE THING is a remake but I'd wager that film's screenwriter Bill Lancaster or John Carpenter saw this before setting about their version. The opening - where a lone guy runs across a snow-covered plain while being chased by a snowboat - sounds exactly like the opening of Carpenter's film. Look for Bruce Greenwood in his first big screen roll as Tommy the Technician, sporting an epic beard.