Bear Island (film)

Bear Island
Cinema poster
Directed byDon Sharp
Written byDon Sharp
David Butler
additional material
Murray Smith
Based onnovel Bear Island by Alistair MacLean
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAlan Hume
Edited byTony Lower
Music byRobert Farnon
Production
companies
Selkirk Films
Canadian Film Development Corporation
Bear Island Films
Distributed byUnited Artists (Canada)
Columbia Pictures (International; through Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors in the UK[1])
Release dates
  • 1 November 1979 (1979-11-01) (United States)
  • 5 December 1979 (1979-12-05) (South Africa)
  • 26 December 1979 (1979-12-26) (UK)
Running time
118 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Canada
LanguagesEnglish, German
Budget$CAD12,100,000 (estimated) or $9.3 million[2]

Bear Island is a 1979 thriller film based on Alistair MacLean's 1971 novel of the same name. It was directed by Don Sharp, and starring Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee and Lloyd Bridges.

  1. ^ "Bear Island (1979)". BBFC. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. ^ Adilman, Sid (11 March 1979). "Bear Island: The Film That Stayed out in the Cold". Los Angeles Times. p. m6.