Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

navygrogg40 The way movies should be made. No loud obnoxious music to where you can't think. Enjoyable characters. Nice plot.

nomoons11 I held off on watching this one and I can't remember why. As soon as I finished this film, I knew why. My instinct told me this was a flop. I should listen to myself more often.I think it was some time last year I watched a film called "Rituals". It had Lawrence Dane in it, just like in this one, and I decided to watch the special features within that disc. He mentions in an interview very briefly that Richard Widmark complained constantly throughout this entire film. I assumed that was just Widmark being a fairly big star of his day being just that....a star. After I watched I knew why he was complaining. Bad Script, Super Cold temperatures and probably knowing he was involved in a turkey...he wasn't too pleased.I've never read the novel this was based on but the idea in itself isn't a bad one. The problem is the plausibility of this happening is pretty far fetched. The acting in this isn't that bad really, it's just the lack of any believable dialogue or just too many "quiet" moments it got to be a pretty tedious watch.There are a few funny moments that come to mind. Right at the end when the entire group at the station sets out to see whats happened to head of the group, they look and see the boat leaving and 1 guy screams..."Smitty". If you've seen this then you'll know that Smitty was played by the Lloyd Bridges character and he was killed off about 3/4 of the way through. Problem is, Smitty is in the harbor, on a boat at least 400 or 500 yards away. How can that guy see that far to see who it was lol. It's ridiculous. There are quite a few scenes where these characters walk around, inside and out, inappropriately addressed for a place at the top of the world. I mean we're talking about sub zero temps and they walk around with some basic jeans and sweaters and maybe some long johns. I don't have to live very far up north of anywhere to know you'd freeze your tail off with what they were wearing.There were many other "yeah right" scenes but they aren't worth mentioning because they sum up what this film is worth...not a heckuva lot. Save your hours of the day for doing laundry and not thinking you missed out on anything if you missed this one....Trust me...you haven't.

sdm1234 I don't know this movie. I was looking it up because I enjoyed the book. I'm writing, because I do think that OCT, who gave a VERY negative review of the movie, damaged his/her credibility when he/she said that Alistair MacLean was out-of-print. Hey Oct, go to Amazon.com, do a search, type in the word "Alistair" and see if Alistair MacLean isn't the first option that pops up. Do you just pull "stuff" out of thin air or do you think a little and maybe do a little research first? I was incredulous of your lampooning of each and every member of the cast. These are solid actors... so I was questioning your motives. Then I flashed back to that NONSENSE about Alistair MacLean being out-of-print and realized that YOU should out-of-print.

ebuhrer-2 I've read all of Alistair MacLean's novels, most of them multiple times...this was almost as bad as the job they did on ICE STATION ZEBRA...the musical score was noisy and sounded as if it had been recorded on a battery-operated cassette tape recorder, and what a waste of some great actors and actresses...my main problem with the film is how disjointed it is from scene to scene...one minute people are stranded on a glacier, the next they are driving into town...and how did those two Hitler-youth Nazis get all that stuff (I'll let you find out "what stuff?") up that narrow shaft?! Even my dog wouldn't believe it. Believe this: the novel is better. Films that MacLean wrote the screenplay for are much truer to the original story lines. Fortunately, this film did not end the careers of Regrave, Sutherland, Bridges, and Widmark...