Bear Island

1979 118 min ★ 6.1 Thriller, Action, Adventure, Mystery

A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. 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. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate

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Cast

Donald Sutherland

Frank Lansing

Vanessa Redgrave

Heddi Lindquist

Richard Widmark

Otto Gerran

Christopher Lee

Lechinski

Barbara Parkins

Judith Rubin

Lloyd Bridges

Smithy

Lawrence Dane

Paul Hartman

Patricia Collins

Inge Van Zipper

Michael J. Reynolds

Heyter

Nicholas Cortland

Jungbeck

Details

Director

Don Sharp

Screenplay

Don Sharp

Tagline

"Below freezing and beyond fear... Will anyone survive its terror?"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$12,200,000

Production

Bear Island Films (U.K.) Limited, Canadian Film Development Corporation, Selkirk Films, Columbia Pictures

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

April 28, 2022

★ 6/10

I've seen this film I don't know how many times and I never can remember the ending... I think that is probably because so much of the preamble in this overlong arctic drama is dull and listless. Certainly it has an A-list cast, but somehow the whole just doesn't equal the sum of the parts. Richard Widmark ("Otto") heads up a group of scientists on the eponymous island that was formerly used as a ...