Item:

Title:
BEAR ISLAND
Title year:
1979
Also known as:
  • LE SECRET DE LA BANQUISE
Original dialogue(s):
  • English
Version(s):
  • French dub.
Running time:
109 m 51 s
Director(s):
Credited as:
Don Sharp -
Screen Writer(s):
Credited as:
David Butler -
Don Sharp -
Murray Smith -
Source:
Credited as: Source material:
Alistair MacLean - Novel
Actor(s):
Credited as: Character name:
Donald Sutherland - Frank Lansing
Vanessa Redgrave - Heddi Lindquist
Richard Widmark - Otto Gerran
Christopher Lee - Professor Lechinski
Barbara Parkins - Judith Rubin
Lloyd Bridges - Smithy
Lawrence Dane - Paul Hartman
Michael J. Reynolds - Heyter
Patricia Collins - Inge Van Zipper
Nicholas Cortland - Jungbeck
Candace O'Connor - laboratory assistant
August Schellenberg - marine technician
Bruce Greenwood - technician
Joseph Golland - meteorological assistant
Michael Collins - ship's captain
Richard Wren - radio operator
Mark Jones - cook
Hagan Beggs - Larsen
Terrence Waterhouse - helicopter pilot
Robert Stelmach - ship's radio operator
Producer(s):
Credited as:
Peter Snell -
Associate Producer(s):
Credited as:
William Hill -
Editor(s):
Credited as:
Eric Boyd Perkins -
Tony Lower -
Musician(s):
  • Robert Farnon
Photography:
  • Alan Hume
Location sound mixer(s):
  • Brian Simmons
Support:
35mm col (Kodak 5247)
Aspect ratio:
2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Release:
Pretoria 1979/12/5
Cape Town 1979/12/5
Johannesburg (South Africa) 1979/12/5
Paris 1979/12/19
London 1979/12/27
Canada (76 theatres) 1980/6/6
Co-finance:
Financial %:
Country production 60
Location(s):
  • Stewart
  • Tide Lake (B.C.)
  • Glacier Bay (Alaska)
Laboratory:
  • Alpha Cine Services Ltd. (Vancouver)
  • Rank Film Laboratories (London)
Studio:
  • Pinewood Film Studios (U.K.)
Organization(s):
Distributor(s):
Canada United Artists
Quebec United Artists
US Taft International Pictures
U.K. Columbia-EMI-Warner
CFFD Reference No.:
846
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