November 17 movie: Ice Station Zebra. Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Brown star in a cold war submarine movie. It's not a great movie, but it kept my attention. There's a beautiful sequence early on where the submarine travels underneath the arctic ice. On the downside, the Ice Station Zebra set is laughable. It looks like they're standing on a soundstage with white stuff on the floor. Nothing at all like an icy wasteland.
This movie was previously known to me as "that movie that caused the worst ever episode of The Prisoner." Because McGoohan was off filming this movie so they wrote an episode where Number Six was put in another guy's body, so they could use another actor, and it's a terrible episode.
I assume you know this was Howard Hughes's favorite film? He said it was the film that best depicted the world as it really was. Which is a weird combination of sad and scary, if true.
No, I did not know that. Wow.