1968 · Beverly Hills, CA
by John Sturges (director); Alistair MacLean (novel); Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, W.R. Burnett (screenwriters); Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film. Four with mimeo snipes to the verso.
A tense, two-part Cold War thriller, based on the 1963 novel. The US nuclear attack submarine Tigerfish is sent to the North Pole to rescue the personnel of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a British research weather station that has sent out multiple distress signals. Most of the submarine's crew is unaware, however, that the mission is a front for a highly classified assignment involving Soviet saboteurs and stolen satellite technology. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including one for Best (truncated)
A tense, two-part Cold War thriller, based on the 1963 novel. The US nuclear attack submarine Tigerfish is sent to the North Pole to rescue the personnel of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a British research weather station that has sent out multiple distress signals. Most of the submarine's crew is unaware, however, that the mission is a front for a highly classified assignment involving Soviet saboteurs and stolen satellite technology. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including one for Best (truncated)