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- Where Eagles Dare (1968) Rotten Tomatoes® 87%
- The Guns of Navarone (1961) Rotten Tomatoes® 92%
- Ice Station Zebra (1968) Rotten Tomatoes® 47%
- Bear Island (1979)
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- 'Where Eagles Dare' (1968) IMDb Score: 7.6/10. As with The Guns of Navarone, a team of commandos is sent into enemy territory to do what conventional forces could not possibly achieve.
- 'The Guns of Navarone' (1961) IMDb Score: 7.5/10. In this 1961 film a group of British soldiers in WWII are stuck on the Greek island of Leros and can only be rescued by sea, but ships cannot get past large German guns sited on the island of Navarone; a special team of commandos is sent to the island to destroy them.
- 'Breakheart Pass' (1975) IMDb Score: 6.7/10. There is something intriguing about a Scottish writer penning a Western about smuggling guns and ammunition to a cabal of Native Americans in cahoots with a criminal gang under the guise of delivering medical supplies to a fort with a garrison suffering from a diphtheria epidemic.
- 'Ice Station Zebra' (1968) IMDb Score: 6.6/10. In a race to retrieve the film from a Soviet spy satellite that malfunctioned and landed on the ice in the Arctic, an American nuclear submarine under the command of James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), races north with two spies (Patrick McGoohan and Ernest Borgnine) and a platoon of marines.
Sep 30, 2016 · It’s one thing for a book to be fascinated by acting, but it's another thing to use actors to make that book come to life.
- The Guns of Navarone
- Where Eagles Dare
- Ice Station Zebra
- The Last Frontier
- When Eight Bells Toll
- Fear Is The Key
- Goodbye California
- Bear Island
- Caravan to Vaccares
- The Dark Crusader
The Guns of Navarone was published in 1957, and it tells a fictional story of what happened when the entire navy failed to stop the attacks on Navarone. To try to find success, they sent in an elite team of just five men. Each of these assassins was well-skilled at handing out death. Though the storyline is fictitious, this war story is set in Worl...
Where Eagles Dareis a 1967 novel by Alistair MacLean, it has page-turning action as it follows British Special Forces into the Austrian Alps as they look to infiltrate Nazi intelligence headquarters. GoodReads says that this book set the pace for the modern action thriller and was eventually made into a Clint Eastwood film.
Ice Station Zebra, MacLean’s 1963 novel, takes readers into the Arctic Ocean and the ice floes that call this area home. The men manning weather station Zebra are drifting on an ice pack in mortal danger. The submarine Dolphin is sent to rescue them, only to find a more profound mystery involving sabotage and a killer on the loose.
Though Alistair is known for his war tales set in the Second World War,The Last Frontier, published in 1959, takes a stab at the Cold War era. This book shows why he is among the top crime thriller authors. It weaves danger and suspense into a story about secret agent Michael Reynolds who is on an undercover mission behind the Iron Curtain to rescu...
When Eight Bells Tollhit publication in 1966, it is an all-time classic that sends the British Secret Service in to investigate gold bullion that is getting pirated in the Irish Sea. This book is quite suspenseful and has dry humor that will cause readers to chuckle as they follow the action.
Fear Is the Key is a story of revenge. In it, a man named Talbot searches for a DC-3 that is sunken on the floor of the Caribbean Sea. With it are four murdered people and a large treasure, but a gangster, oilman, and the Mafia all want to keep Talbot from reaching it. This book, published in 1961, keeps readers guessing page after page.
A criminal takes on the task of blasting San Francisco into the ocean in Goodbye California.The criminal mastermind kidnaps a nuclear scientist to build atomic bombs. By planting them along the fault lines, the theory is that he could set off the biggest earthquake in California’s history, sending the city into the ocean. MacLean added this book to...
Bear Island, MacLean’s 1971 work, sends the Morning Rose, a fishing trawler, into the Arctic Circle to film a movie. Along the way, the movie crew and ship’s company start dying off. Marlowe, the ship’s doctor, finds himself in the middle of a murder plot that is somehow tied to World War II. The plot becomes very suspenseful and increases when the...
Caravan to Vaccaresis set in Provence in southern France, where gypsies make an annual pilgrimage each year. For this particular year, many mysterious deaths come to light, and Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman head in to investigate. This leads to a tale of danger and murder in an exotic European location. The first publication of this novel was in 19...
In 1961, Alistair MacLean set up the story of a criminal mastermind who seeks his victims through job advertisements. In The Dark Crusader,the killer sets out ads for specialists in modern technology, requiring they are married without children. Each of the eight applicants chosen disappears until secret agent John Bentall takes the case to stop th...
Jul 7, 2017 · 10. Canadian-born filmmaker Alison Maclean emigrated to New Zealand as a teenager and later attended Elam Art School in Auckland. After making Kitchen Sink (1989), still arguably the most successful short film to come out of New Zealand, and her debut feature, Crush (1992), which played in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, she moved to ...
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Jul 3, 2017 · Interview: Alison Maclean and Kerry Fox. By Shonni Enelow on July 3, 2017. Directed by Alison Maclean (Jesus’ Son) from the book by Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal is the subject of the Release Me column in our January/February issue: “The Canada-born, New Zealand-raised, New York-dwelling director’s return to feature filmmaking ...
