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Bear Island

Bear Island

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

19796.01h 58m

Overview

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

Directed by Don Sharp
Written by Don Sharp, Alistair MacLean, David Butler
Produced by Peter Snell
Box OfficeBudget: $12.2M0

Top Cast

Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Frank Lansing

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

Heddi Lindquist

Richard Widmark

Richard Widmark

Otto Gerran

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Lechinski

Barbara Parkins

Barbara Parkins

Judith Rubin

Lloyd Bridges

Lloyd Bridges

Smithy

Lawrence Dane

Lawrence Dane

Paul Hartman

Patricia Collins

Patricia Collins

Inge Van Zipper

Michael J. Reynolds

Michael J. Reynolds

Heyter

N

Nicholas Cortland

Jungbeck

Themes & Keywords

goldislandbased on novel or booknaziprofessormountainknifearctic polar circle regionmurderbetrayalsnowcorpsesabotageblizzardsnow skiingavalanche

About Bear Island

Bear Island is a thriller, action, adventure, mystery film released in 1979 exploring themes of gold, island, based on novel or book, nazi, professor, mountain. Directed by Don Sharp, it stars Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark. 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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