Le Secret de la banquise

Titre original : Bear Island

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Vanessa Redgrave, Donald Sutherland, and Lawrence Dane in Le Secret de la banquise (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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Larsen, un scientifique de l'ONU en poste sur l'Île aux Ours, un territoire norvégien utilisé comme base sous-marine par les Allemands pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, envoie un signal de... Tout lireLarsen, un scientifique de l'ONU en poste sur l'Île aux Ours, un territoire norvégien utilisé comme base sous-marine par les Allemands pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, envoie un signal de détresse au navire scientifique le Morning Rose.Larsen, un scientifique de l'ONU en poste sur l'Île aux Ours, un territoire norvégien utilisé comme base sous-marine par les Allemands pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, envoie un signal de détresse au navire scientifique le Morning Rose.

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Anecdotes
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 La Tour Eiffel en otage (1980) and Night Watch (1995) made for television.

Gaffes
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.

Crédits fous
"Coming soon: Alistair MacLean's Goodbye California"

Versions alternatives
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.

Connexions
Referenced in The Bond Essentials (2002)

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6/10

Not great, but much better than expected

I had heard that Bear Island was not a good movie at all, but I wanted to see it anyway because I like the cast a lot. When I eventually saw it, I didn't find it great, but it was much better than I expected.

Pros: Lovely photography and great sets and locations. Atmospheric score by Richard Farnon. Great performances from Richard Widmark and Christopher Lee, Vanessa Redgrave has her moments but has an inconsistent accent. Sharp and well paced direction.

Cons: As much as I love Donald Sutherland, he does look bored and stiff here. The dialogue is uneven, having moments when it is decent but some of it is really quite bad. The story has great idea and starts and ends well, but the film is rather sluggish with some of the middle section feeling like filler.

All in all, not great, not awful, just somewhere in between. 6/10 Bethany Cox