A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.

Rock Hudson
as Cdr. James Ferraday

Ernest Borgnine
as Boris Vaslov

Patrick McGoohan
as David Jones

Jim Brown
as Capt. Leslie Anders

Tony Bill
as Lt. Russell Walker

Alf Kjellin
as Col. Ostrovsky

Gerald S. O'Loughlin
as Lt. Cdr. Bob Raeburn

Ted Hartley
as Lt. Jonathan Hansen

Murray Rose
as Lt. George Mills

Michael T. Mikler
as Lt. Courtney Cartwright
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Rock Hudson captains an American nuclear submarine in this stolid adaptation of the Alistair McLean novel about international satellite espionage. A hammy Patrick McGoohan and Ernest Borgnine join the crew as the submarine heads to a British weather station in the Arctic that has stopped responding ...