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Le Secret de la banquise

Titre original : Bear Island
  • 1979
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  • 1h 58min
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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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    • Don Sharp
  • Scénario
    • David Butler
    • Don Sharp
    • Murray Smith
  • Casting principal
    • Donald Sutherland
    • Vanessa Redgrave
    • Richard Widmark
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    • Réalisation
      • Don Sharp
    • Scénario
      • David Butler
      • Don Sharp
      • Murray Smith
    • Casting principal
      • Donald Sutherland
      • Vanessa Redgrave
      • Richard Widmark
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    Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland
    • Frank Lansing
    Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave
    • Dr. Heddi Lindquist
    Richard Widmark
    Richard Widmark
    • Prof. Otto Gerran
    Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    • Thaddeus Lechinski
    Barbara Parkins
    Barbara Parkins
    • Dr. Judith Rubin
    Lloyd Bridges
    Lloyd Bridges
    • Smithy
    Lawrence Dane
    Lawrence Dane
    • Paul Hartman
    Patricia Collins
    • Inge Van Zipper
    Michael J. Reynolds
    Michael J. Reynolds
    • Heyter
    Nicholas Cortland
    • Jungbeck
    August Schellenberg
    August Schellenberg
    • Marine Technician
    Candace O'Connor
    • Laboratory Assistant
    Joseph Golland
    • Meteorological Assistant
    Bruce Greenwood
    Bruce Greenwood
    • Technician
    Richard Wren
    • Radio Operator
    Mark Jones
    Mark Jones
    • Cook
    Hagan Beggs
    Hagan Beggs
    • Larsen
    • (as Hagen Beggs)
    Michael Collins
    • Ship's Captain
    • Réalisation
      • Don Sharp
    • Scénario
      • David Butler
      • Don Sharp
      • Murray Smith
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    6TheLittleSongbird

    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
    7udar55

    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.
    heedarmy

    Icebound thriller gets frosty reception

    The UK-Canada co-production treaty of the late Seventies produced a lot of dross. "Bear Island" is better than some of its companions but still no classic.

    Alistair MacLean's novel was a turgid affair, written at the start of his long decline as a writer. The film-makers wisely ditch most of his plot but the story they substitute, about an icy hunt for wartime Nazi gold, is no masterpiece of originality. Vanessa Redgrave's Norwegian accent comes and goes (at times, she sounds like the Swedish chef from "The Muppets") and Donald Sutherland tries for depth by speaking - very - very - slowly. Anybody who has seen a few of these films won't take long to guess the identity of the "mystery" villain.

    On the credit side, the locations are spectacular and Robert Farnon's music score is appropriately portentous. Don Sharp knows how to direct action (he had been brought in a few years earlier to ginger up another MacLean adaptation, "Pupper On a Chain") and the fights are well-staged.
    8rlaine

    They don't make 'em like they used to

    I've been a movie geek since my childhood in the early 80's. This is one of the titles that for some reason stuck in my mind, even tho I never saw it because I was too young. Now was the first time I caught it on TV (scandinavian TCM). I'm surprised to see it's only available as a Spanish DVD and has an such a low score on IMDb (5.4/10).

    I must say it's one of the better films I've seen this year, although I'm easy to please when it comes to certain types of film and this really is one of them. The locations and set design are amazing. This kind of isolation, feel of cold bleak winter, snow storms are very rarely portrayed so well, it's up there with Carpenter's The Thing. Grab a warm cup of coffee on a rainy day or a whiskey on a darkening evening while watching this.

    I saw this without subtitling and had a bit of a trouble keeping up with the plot, even tho I'm pretty fluent in English. There are characters from USA, Germany, Denmark, Poland etc and a lot of exaggerated accents. It also doesn't make it much easier to follow the plot when the actors have similar clothing and are covered all the way, so you can't see their faces when outdoors.

    I'm not much into action, but the scenes here worked. They are quite few, but longish and build slowly. There is some noticeable trick cinematography and jump cuts, but they're easily forgiven.

    It's a fun detail that the expedition to Bear Island is initially about investigating the global warming. Judging by the original book synopsis, this wasn't the case on Maclean's book, but added to the movie. The movie is already over 30 years old so it's a nice eye opener for those who think global warming is something Al Gore invented.

    It's far from perfect movie (from a relatively unknown Hammer horror director!), but the arctic scenery, some enjoyable performances (Sutherland) make up for it. Catch it if you can (TCM shows the widescreen version). It's a true nostalgia trip to a movie land that doesn't seem to exist anymore.
    Oct

    Chiller, not thriller

    Comparing Alistair MacLean and Ian Fleming is salutary. Both were heavy-drinking Scots who wrote action thrillers, hitting the jackpot in the Fifties and Sixties. But whereas Fleming's novels have risen to be Penguin Modern Classics, MacLean-- once said to be the world's best-selling novelist-- is now totally out of print in the States, and in and out of it in his own country.

    Fleming created a flat but fascinating protagonist who became more interesting than the villains and girls he encountered; MacLean never used the same character twice, preferring chase and setting to psychology. His inability to invent interesting female foils was absolute; often they have the same name, Mary or variants thereon. MacLean trusted that the story would be its own reward, but without psychological flesh on the bones his stock situation-- group of professionals in tight-lipped quest for a treasure, one of them a snake in the grass- becomes wearisome.

    MacLean's other handicap was that he liked money. After "The Guns of Navarone" hit dollar paydirt, he increasingly wrote with movie adaptation in mind, producing hybrids that were neither literary nor cinematic; whereas Fleming barely lived to see the Bond films blossoming into history's biggest screen moneyspinner.

    "Bear Island" is a case study in the frosty aridity of MacLean's "visual" imagination. The gang are placed in a locale he knows and loves: the Arctic, scene of his first hit, "HMS Ulysses", and "Ice Station Zebra", a good film. In the background is World War Two, in which MacLean's naval service was the making of him. The principals are uneasily allied in search of Nazi gold buried on Bear Island, near Spitzbergen. There is much betraying and motive-revelation, chases in boats and on skis and snowmobiles, close-quarters work with fists, knives and guns, before the treasure hunt is played out. But it's all as chilly as the temperature.

    To begin with, the film was an Anglo-Canadian co-production, never a promising sign; it was shot in British Columbia with a cast ill at ease with their roles. Donald Sutherland, the Canadian contribution, gawps and mumbles in his usual fashion, hardly the strong silent MacLean hero. Vanessa Redgrave-- incredibly, this was the part with which she chose to follow an Oscar for "Julia"-- is a statuesque Scandinavian with a wobbly Ingrid Bergmanesque accent. Christopher Lee seems to pine for cape and fangs. Lloyd Bridges, the bad apple, hams it up in a manner anticipating his turn to actual self-parody in "Airplane!".

    All are often encased in anoraks and big fur hoods, so knowing who is doing what to whom is a puzzle. The pace is crippled by the conditions: fights seem slapstick, and there is a ludicrous moment when several characters flounderingly "break into a run" knee deep in snow, at a leaden pace. The icy scenery is attractive, but to get scale the camera has to stand well back, diminishing the figures of the actors and making their manoeuvres seem as trivial as a puppet show.

    Director Don Sharp, as Ken Annakin noted in his memoirs, was better at derring-do than humour, but nobody goes to MacLean for a laugh: here too he is unlike Fleming, whose pawky vein of wit was broadened by the Bond scenarists and has preserved the early 007 entries magnificently. The solemnity of "Bear Island"'s furry, flailing personnel becomes risible.

    The picture, in short, was a weary and chilly haul for the audience. Not that many were given the chance; it was hardly released to cinemas and became a TV schedule filler. It might as well have been a midatlantic melange from Lord Grade.

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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.
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      Referenced in The Bond Essentials (2002)

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    • Date de sortie
      • 19 décembre 1979 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
      • Canada
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • L'Île des ours
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, États-Unis
    • Sociétés de production
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Selkirk Films
      • Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)
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      • 12 100 000 $CA (estimé)
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      1 heure 58 minutes
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      • Dolby Stereo
    • Rapport de forme
      • 2.35 : 1

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