This is an Alistair MaClean Cold-War outing, to the arctic, to salvage a Russian Spy-Satellite. Naturally, it's a race between the superpowers of Russia and America, coupled with a submarine/Captain, Rock Hudson and his associates to get there ... an able Patrick McGoohan as a British agent tasked with the retrieval. It's usual Cold-War fare/espionage but it is watchable, one of those films we grew up with in the afternoon slot. There's a traitor in the mix (midst?) as well, as per usual to add to the storyline, well, it IS espionage, after all. Nice score and, if you're a military-head, you'll love the plastic MiG-21s flying to the trouble-spot, that become Phantom F-4s very quickly when it suits stock footage!
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