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Few thrills in ‘Bear Island’

TORONTO (UPC) -
Filmgoers to the $10-milhon
“Bear Island” can expect
lithe more than refreshing
panoramas, while summer
sizzles outside, of ice and
snow ino northern Canada
and a catalogue of violent
ways to get md of enemies

In the) Brittsh-Canadian
“acuhon-adventure” to be
released June 6, the first
character 1s killed off when
he ts squashed by a snow
hydrocopter Fire, ex
plosion, a harpoon. bullets,
and a spectacular crash over
the side of a mountain make
further reductions

Besides often = stilted
dialogue, the film contained
some incongruous scenes
like a supposedly dramatic
run (through heavy snow
which had the audience at an

The Calgary-born producer
of one of the most expensive
Anglo-Canadian film efforts
to date

He lauds the technical
accomplishment ol
technicians hired in) Van
couver to work with British
filmmakers on the locaton
shooting near Stewart, BC
and in Glacier Bay, Alaska
dunnyg the fall and winter
months of 1979

The problems of — the
location shooting. Snell said.

benumbed hands had trouble
adjust actors’ microphones
Making the movie was not
without danger. A Van
couver hehcopter pilot was
killed in an accident as he
flew into a remote site
Director Don Sharp and his
film crew were marooned 60
hours atop at glacier duc to
hehcopter engine problems
“One thing | learned was
not to do it again,” said
Snell, an independent
producer working with

were “horrendous, parallel! Canada’s Selkirk Films.
e e advance press screening toa military operation” whose previous credits
gaffawing in disbehef A Besides what) he terms” include “Hennessey” with
Zive you the shirt oft chase with snow scooters “Complete calemng” to a Rod Steiger and “Don't Look
hotly pursued by bigger crew that at one potnt Now” with Sutherland and

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hydrocopters had all the
tension of a midway dodgem
nde

The film. featuring
Donald Sutherland, Vanessa
Redgrave. Richard Wid
mark Christopher Lec,
Barbara Parkins and Lioyd
Bridges was loosely based
on a book by Alistair
Mach can ‘

A group of UN scientists
wre pe sted oto ow remote
island ostensibly to study
weather patterns but thei

oumbers decrease as they

remote mining town of
Stewart. and later went
aboard a teased Soviet liner
off Alaska. organizers had to
sel up oa base camp 4K
kilometres from Stewart
complete with clectrieity

heating and telegraph lines

A crew was assigned to
keep access roads free of
snow ta the avalanche prone
arca Actors had provisions

i gihteu Crteibabe bs

whi thay
them time to acchimatizve to
Arctse conditions and learn

such northern arts as

Juhe Chinstie

Snell is mled by what he
considers unfair cnmticism of
the Canadian movie in
dustry On his desk in his
Toronto

office were

newspaper chppings = from
lambasting the

Canadian cntnes at Cannes

crityes

this year

bverywhere you go.
people are putting Canada
dhowa Pts yust tall "te saad

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to file six more Macl ean

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