Ice Station Zebra – 1968

3D Lenticular Standee

Condition: Very Good

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Size: 10.25 x 13.5 inches (26 x 34 cm)

In order to add an extra dimension to the advertising campaign, MGM were one of the first studios to produce 3D lenticular posters. These posters were expensive to produce, and only a small quantity were made.

This 3D lenticular poster has multiple images, depending on where you are standing to view it. As these were made in smaller quantities to the regular posters, they do not surface that often.

Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 American espionage thriller film directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The screenplay is by Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W. R. Burnett, loosely based on Alistair MacLean's 1963 novel. Both were inspired by real-life events that took place in 1959 (the flight, loss and search for Discoverer 2). 

During the height of the Cold War, the US nuclear submarine USS Tigerfish, captained by Commander James Farraday, is sent on a secret mission to a location near the North Pole.

Their mission, ostensibly, is to rescue survivors from Ice Station Zebra, a British weather research station, but it is quite clear that it is more than that. The presence of the shadowy, enigmatic Mr Jones, a British civilian who has control over the mission, makes it clear that something larger is afoot. Then the submarine is sabotaged - there is clearly a Russian spy on board.

“It's a race for the secret ... or TOTAL DESTRUCTION!"

Tags: 1960s War Drama Spy British Thriller Miscellanea American