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** The near-loss of the ''Tigerfish'' is based on the HMS ''Thetis'', which flooded and sank when the inner and outer torpedo hatches were opened to the sea by accident, due to the test cock being blocked (it was accidentally painted over during construction, rather than deliberately sabotaged).
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* DoctorVonTurncoat: Smith snarks at one point that literally everybody in the Cold War is employing German scientists they poached in their own versions of Operation Paperclip.
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-->'''Mr. Jones:''' The Russians put the camera made by ''our'' German scientists and the film made by ''your'' German scientists into the satellite made by ''their'' German scientists...
-->'''Mr. Jones:''' The Russians put the camera made by ''our'' German scientists and the film made by ''your'' German scientists into the satellite made by ''their'' German scientists...
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Alastair!
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* CodenameTitle: An action-adventure film from 1968. ThePlace of the title refers to the destination an American submarine is ordered to visit, under a cover story of aiding Russians. The captain discovers his passengers have another agenda. Based on the novel by Archibald [=MacLean=].
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* CodenameTitle: An action-adventure film from 1968. ThePlace of the title refers to the destination an American submarine is ordered to visit, under a cover story of aiding Russians. The captain discovers his passengers have another agenda. Based on the novel by Archibald [=MacLean=].
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* NoRulesRacing: Whole film is one big race to see which side of the Cold War gets this game-changing information first. There are no rules for a situation like this, and even if there were, with the stakes so high, no one would pay attention to them.
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* LampshadeHanging: In the novel, when the submarine dives for the first time, the British spy expects blaring klaxons and men yelling "[[DiveDiveDive Dive! Dive! Dive!]]" Instead, the commander just says "OK men, we're going down."
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* LampshadeHanging: In the novel, when the submarine dives for the first time, the British spy expects blaring klaxons and men yelling "[[DiveDiveDive Dive! Dive! Dive!]]" "DiveDiveDive" Instead, the commander just says "OK men, we're going down."
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''Ice Station Zebra'' is a 1968 UsefulNotes/ColdWar espionage thriller directed by John Sturges, adapted from the 1963 novel by Creator/AlistairMacLean (which, in turn, fictionalized a real event) with a soundtrack by Music/MichelLegrand. The cast includes Creator/RockHudson, Creator/ErnestBorgnine, Creator/PatrickMcGoohan, and [[UsefulNotes/NFLOffensivePlayers Jim Brown]].
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''Ice Station Zebra'' is a 1968 American UsefulNotes/ColdWar espionage thriller directed by John Sturges, adapted from the 1963 novel by Creator/AlistairMacLean (which, in turn, fictionalized a real event) with a soundtrack by Music/MichelLegrand. The cast includes Creator/RockHudson, Creator/ErnestBorgnine, Creator/PatrickMcGoohan, and [[UsefulNotes/NFLOffensivePlayers Jim Brown]].
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* SelfDefenseRuse: TheMole plans to invoke this trope, telling an American officer to beat him with a crowbar so he can be shot in "self defense". The officer is incredulous that he would go along with this plan, but the mole points out that [[DefiantToTheEnd he's the type to die fighting]]. Instead of reaching for the crowbar, the officer attacks him directly, eventually gaining the upper hand [[NiceJobBreakingItHero until he's shot dead by the hero]] under the assumption that ''he'' is TheMole.
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* CodenameTitle: An action-adventure film from 1968. ThePlace of the title refers to the destination an American submarine is ordered to visit, under a cover story of aiding Russians. The captain discovers his passengers have another agenda. Based on the novel by Archibald [=MacLean=].
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At the time, the film was considered a workmanlike B-picture thriller and was received with indifference by critics. These days, history buffs are more likely to recognize it as the movie that the the aviator and billionaire tycoon Creator/HowardHughes watched hundreds of times due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder. (As Hughes owned the Las Vegas TV station KLAS, which had ''Ice Station Zebra'' in its library, he would call in and force them to play the film on repeat all night.) It's also well-known among fans of ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'', as McGoohan took a break from filming his own series to work on this film, using his pay to keep ''The Prisoner'' afloat.
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At the time, the film was considered a workmanlike B-picture thriller and was received with indifference by critics. These days, history buffs are more likely to recognize it as the movie that the the aviator and billionaire tycoon Creator/HowardHughes watched hundreds of times due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder. (As Hughes owned the Las Vegas TV station KLAS, which had ''Ice Station Zebra'' in its library, he would call in and force them to play the film on repeat all night.) It's also well-known among fans of ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'', as McGoohan [=McGoohan=] took a break from filming his own series to work on this film, using his pay to keep ''The Prisoner'' afloat.
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* ChromosomeCasting: Only three women appear in the film: One is a barmaid at the far end of the bar when Ferraday receives a phone call; another is in one of the booths in the bar; the third is seen walking with a companion arm-in-arm outside the second pub Ferraday enters.
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* ChromosomeCasting: Only three women appear in the film: One is a barmaid at the far end of the bar when Ferraday receives a phone call; another is in one of the booths in the bar; the third is seen walking with a companion arm-in-arm outside the second pub Ferraday enters. TruthInTelevision, as in that era women were not posted to nuclear attack submarines or Arctic research stations.
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