Bear Island [1979]

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G. Wells Kurt Vonnegut Lee Child Loren Eiseley Louise Erdrich Louise Penny Lovecraft and Howard Malcolm X Margaret Atwood Marianne Moore and Her World Mo Willems Neil Gaiman Norman Mailer Octavia Butler Pat LaMarche and the Charles Bruce Foundation P. Donald Sutherland attempts a flawed hero, but he doesn’t have much to work with, which includes a particularly vapid Redgrave. They developed the project for several of months in the mid 1970s but Snell was unable to raise finance.

Bear Island is a 1979 adventure movie directed by Don Sharp and based on the novel by Alistair MacLean ( Puppet on a Chain). That the actual explanation and bad guys were such a cliché by that stage did little to endear the film to viewers in 1979, but now they come across as staples of the sort of thriller that you can waste time with on the small screen, only with perhaps more novelty thanks to it being a more relatively modern project, and in colour to boot.They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. I think the isolation of the wintery yet deadly surroundings open up all kinds of possibilities for filmmakers. Vanessa Redgrave is a nice Norwegian doctor but the agent who was killed was Norwegian so there is a mystery there. it's routine adventure- flick stuff: blood, guts and (a little) suspense intercut with acting of appalling quality, and dialogue that makes one yearn for the days of silent movies. MacLean can certainly capture claustrophobia and a paranoia in his writing but often that – and the pace of his stories – fails to translate.

This censorship severely interferes with the plot, as it is crucial to the novel to understand the motives of captain Lansing. While not as iconic as Ice Station Zebra, Bear Island is one of the last good MacLean adaptations and the top-notch cast keep things watchable to the bitter end. Founded in 1985, Whistlestop sells new and secondhand books in all categories and a wide variety of sidelines, from magazines to puzzles, literary t-shirts to cds and dvds, from totes to local honey.I did think at that point that there was a chance that could end up being the best scene in the film because I don't know how any film could follow a moment like that, it was fabulous. The parts focused on personality development aren't too heavy-handed, and the film also succeeds in portraying some pretty tense moments. It was a bestseller in the UK, sold for hefty film rights (never made), and it sold millions worldwide. And a member of the expedition is quickly killed, but it's way over an hour into it before we even know the cause of the mystery, let alone who is behind the naughty goings on.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. During pre production, Snell announced he had the film rights to six other MacLean novels, three of them not written. The three brothers are more skilled at extreme sports than you'd expect, and their confident cold weather performance is impressive.

In 2020 HarperCollins Publishers decided to reprint MacLean with fine new covers and a uniform look. Die Bäreninsel in der Hölle der Arktis" ist ein Abenteuerfilm mit Krimiplot, dem es zu keiner Sekunde gelingt, Spannung zu erzeugen. That’s because his arrival by abseiling from a helicopter is very nearly a swift exit, but Lloyd Bridges as adventurer Smithy rescues him before real disaster can strike.