Bear Island [1979]

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The original novel was published in 1971 and became a best-seller, selling over eight million copies. Lansing takes Lindquist to the U-boat where they find crates marked as containing explosives, but on opening one they discover it is full of gold. We assume he’s an American though of course he’s another real life Canadian export to the movie world.

The next morning, Lansing and Lindquist head out from the base, but are followed by Jungbeck and Heyter who have been released by Zelda.It isn't: the Arctic landscapes are breathtaking, and some of the action sequences are not only active, but also exciting" but that "when compared to The Guns of Navarone. It has all the Maclean obsessions: Spies, betrayal, explosions, inhospitable terrain, snow, and loads of mystery and murder. The filmography is also great for a self-shot action movie under such conditions (if only the "found footage" genre films could be this smooth). Donald Sutherland attempts a flawed hero, but he doesn’t have much to work with, which includes a particularly vapid Redgrave.

He had aged considerably and wasn’t the virile action star I had imagined him to be at this point in his film career. In reality, both have secondary roles here as the majority of screen time goes to Sutherland with Redgrave, Bridges and Dane slightly behind him. It was just all a bit bizarre and far fetched and I never really cared for any of the characters so never really cared what happened to them.The Third Reich ended here…The Fourth Reich is just beginning…’ runs the tagline for Don Sharp’s 1979 Alistair MacLean adaptation, a big all-star action movie that was way out of fashion with critics and audiences back in the day. Boom in Canadian Film Making Hits Snag: Explosion in Canadian Movies Stuck With the Movie 'A Necessary Shakeup' Begging for Distribution Shortage of Producers' ".