# Bear Island (1979)

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**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Action, Adventure, Mystery
**Directed by**: Don Sharp
**Written by**: Don Sharp, David Butler
**Starring**: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins, Lloyd Bridges

> *Below freezing and beyond fear... Will anyone survive its terror?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Arctic winter. A lone helicopter’s blades cutting the silence.

Three travelers step onto a frozen island, their stories tangled like fishing line. By dawn the wind carries the scent of diesel and something else—blood on snow.

A thriller where every step echoes Hitchcock by way of a 70s paperback cover.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid

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