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At the time, the film was considered a workmanlike B-picture thriller and was generally poorly received by critics. Although these days, most history buffs are more likely to know the film as the movie that the the aviator and billionaire tycoon Howard Hughes watched compulsively over hundreds of times due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder. As Hughes owned the Las Vegas TV station KLAS, he would call in and force them to play ''Ice Station Zebra'' on repeat all night.
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At the time, the film was considered a workmanlike B-picture thriller and was generally poorly received with indifference by critics. Although these These days, most history buffs are more likely to know the film as the movie that the the aviator and billionaire tycoon Howard Hughes watched compulsively over hundreds of times due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder. As Hughes owned the Las Vegas TV station KLAS, he would call in and force them to play ''Ice Station Zebra'' on repeat all night.
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* RaceAgainstTime: If the Russians arrive before the Americans, the intelligence will be used probably to destroy the mainland.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Vaslov tells Captain Anders to beat him with a crowbar so he can be shot in 'self defense' as TheMole. Anders is incredulous that he would go along with this plan, but Vaslov points out that [[DefiantToTheEnd he's the type to die fighting]]. Instead of reaching for the crowbar, Anders attacks him directly, eventually gaining the upper hand [[NiceJobBreakingItHero until he's shot dead by Jones]] under the assumption that ''he'' is TheMole.]]
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* AdaptationDistillation: The Once the rescue takes place, the novel was more of a WhoDunnit detective story about which of the rescued survivors was TheMole. This aspect gets dropped with TheMole being revealed to the audience halfway through the movie.
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* NeverTheObviousSuspect: [[spoiler: Averted. The Soviet mole on the ''Tigerfish'' is the Russian "defector" Vaslov]].
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* SpySatellites: The malfunction of one such satellite provides the impetus for the plot when it photographs both Soviet and American missile silos before ejecting its film capsule over the Arctic. Said film capsule serves as the movie's MacGuffin.
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** In 1959, the film capsule from an American Corona spy satellite landed near Spitsbergen and is thought to have been recovered by Soviet agents. (An individual with knowledge of the Corona program would later be a technical adviser on the film.)
** 1962's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_COLDFEET Project COLDFEET]], a CIA mission to recover equipment from an abandoned Soviet ice station. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system Fulton Skyhook]], a method similar to that used by the Soviet jets in the movie to attempt to recover the film capsule, was used to retrieve both the sought after Soviet equipment and the CIA agents involved.
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* EerieArcticResearchStation: The film centers on a lonely Arctic research station that happens to be the closest manned site to where a reconnaissance satellite fell to Earth. Both the Soviet Union and the United States desperately want that satellite, since it managed to photograph secret military sites worldwide before falling out of orbit. It comes down to a race between Soviet fighter jets versus an American nuclear submarine.
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* EerieArcticResearchStation: The film centers on a lonely Arctic research station that happens to be the closest manned site to where a reconnaissance satellite fell to Earth. Both the Soviet Union and the United States desperately want that satellite, since it managed to photograph secret military sites worldwide before falling out of orbit. It comes down to a race between Soviet fighter jets versus an American nuclear submarine. It becomes even more eerie because a mole in the station set part of it on fire to try to take out witnesses of the salvaging of the satellite, and thus the Americans have to sift through the wreckage.
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: As expected of a story involving a shadow war, the real reason why Russians and Americans mobilized troops to the Arctic and the bloodier parts of what happened once they arrived are never made public. Instead, the international press releases a story about how a joint American/Russian operation helped save the poor scientists of Ice Station Zebra, who were in dire straits courtesy of an "accidental" fire...
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* MutuallyAssuredDestruction: Discussed ("M.A.D. -- a ''wonderful'' acronym if I've ever heard of one!") in the InfoDump provided by Mr. Jones regarding why the satellite that landed near the station is such an important MacGuffin: the satellite went over (and thus filmed) the location of all the missile silos in both the United States ''and'' Russia, so whoever gets a hold of the film will (theoretically) be able to create a "survivable" strategy for an all-out nuclear assault.
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* CanonForeigner: Marine Captain Leslie Anders does not appear in the novel.
* 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.
* 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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* MadeInCountryX: Lampshaded by Mr. Jones, saying that the spy satellite was made in Russia with parts designed by German scientists employed by the Americans and British.
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* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: At the end of the film, the Americans blow up the roll of film from the satellite's camera to prevent a MexicanStandoff between them and a Russian commando team from escalating to full-blown slaughter and possibly WorldWarIII.
* SubStory: A large part of the movie involves the submarine journey to get to the titular station, which sees a few problems like almost crashing into an ice floe, some of which are apparently the work of a saboteur.
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