Bear Island (1979)
Directed by Don Sharp
this film based on the novel of the same name stars Donald
Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee and
Lloyd Bridges. An international group of climate scientists travel to
a remote Arctic island but is everyone who they claim to be?
As you would expect
with any film based on an Alistair MacLean novel there are plenty of
twists along the way in this thriller but it does not exactly stick
that closely to it's source material. There is a good cast but the
script does not really play up the tension inherent in the situation
of unknown killers among stranded scientists. We get some nice snow
scape footage but nothing remarkable and in general this is an
average execution of an average thriller plot.
3/5
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