Bear Island [1979]

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They transform the challenging nature of Bear Island into their own playground, finding ice-cold waves and precipitous slopes. For a certain kind of guy, that’s more than enough reason to tune in, but there’s lots more going on. 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. This allows you to pick a movie, episode or complete season to be given as a gift to a lucky recipient. Snell and Selkirk were so positive about Bear Island's prospects that at one stage they planned a series of Alistair MacLean adaptations for annual Christmas release, starting with The Way to Dusty Death.

the protagonist, is wholly non-believable, whether conversing with others or fist-fighting the bad guys.

Snell, however, did get The Hostage Tower (1980) and Detonator II: Night Watch (1995) made for television. By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. While lying in wait for his pursuers, Lansing realises that Hartman has given him an unloaded rifle and that he must be the mysterious Zelda.

Filmed in British Columbia and Alaska, the location shoot is beautiful and I’d love to see more winter shoots in locations like this.A curious thing to say about a film that threw in an avalanche or a U-boat stuffed with Nazi corpses, but it was very ho-hum. Boom in Canadian Film Making Hits Snag: Explosion in Canadian Movies Stuck With the Movie 'A Necessary Shakeup' Begging for Distribution Shortage of Producers' ". Bear Island is a 1979 thriller film loosely based on the 1971 novel Bear Island by Alistair MacLean. The original novel was published in 1971 and became a best-seller, selling over eight million copies. An American (Donald Sutherland) and a Norwegian (Vanessa Redgrave) fall prey to an ex-Nazi (Richard Widmark) seeking gold from a U-boat in the Arctic.