The Russian fighters (as emblemed with Red Stars), seen approximately 1 hour in the film when the Russians are searching for the downed capsule, aren't actually russian planes: they are English, Lightining F-61 fighter planes. [There are two times the Russian fighter planes are shown on screen. The first time is as scale models of Soviet Mig-21s flying from Russia to the North Pole. The second time is stock film footage of a USA F-4 Phantom II flying over the people at the North Pole. There are no English Lighting F-61 fighter planes shown anywhere in this movie.]
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"Ice Station Zebra" is one of dozens of films which make the mistake of showing people carrying rifles such as M-16s with the magazines inserted. In the scene where Marine Captain Jim Brown arrives at the submarine via helicopter, he comes aboard passing his M-16 through a hatch with the magazine inserted, barrel first - a double safety violation. I first saw the movie in a Marine Corps base theater, and all of us yelled at the screen when we saw that. See more...
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Patrick McGoohan committed himself to appearing in "Ice Station Zebra" whilst he was filming his famous TV series "The Prisoner". However, as is well known, "The Prisoner" went massively overbudget and seriously behind schedule. As a result, McGoohan had to leave filming of "The Prisoner" in late 1967 for several weeks, in order to appear in "Ice Station Zebra". This is the reason why several episodes of "The Prisoner" have McGoohan either absent or only in previously filmed flashbacks and inserts...McGoohan could not be filming both "The Prisoner" at Elstree, and "Ice Station Zebra" in Hollywood at the same time. See more...
Ice Station Zebra (1968) - 1 correction
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The Russian fighters (as emblemed with Red Stars), seen approximately 1 hour in the film when the Russians are searching for the downed capsule, aren't actually russian planes: they are English, Lightining F-61 fighter planes. [There are two times the Russian fighter planes are shown on screen. The first time is as scale models of Soviet Mig-21s flying from Russia to the North Pole. The second time is stock film footage of a USA F-4 Phantom II flying over the people at the North Pole. There are no English Lighting F-61 fighter planes shown anywhere in this movie.]
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