Ice Station Zebra (1968)

ICE STATION ZEBRA  (1968)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: John Sturges
    Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine,
    Jim Brown, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan, Alf Kjellin
Cold War adventure starring Rock Hudson as the stalwart captain of a U.S. nuclear submarine on a rescue mission in the Arctic, where something's going on that only a British spy (Patrick McGoohan) and a Russian double agent (Ernest Borgnine) seem to know anything about. Suspense under the ice, and on the frozen surface, with occasional bouts of exposition to help you track the typically convoluted Alistair MacLean plot. Howard Hughes, in his eccentric later years, loved this movie, and reportedly watched it 150 times.