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13 January 1985 (USA)
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They gambled their lives to escape a frozen hell [Australia Theatrical]
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Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America...
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Entertaining, but unconvincing film
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Keith | ... | Mickey Almon |
 | Malcolm McDowell | ... | The Englishman |
 | Warren Clarke | ... | Hooker |
| John McEnery | ... | Diczek |
| Nancy Paul | ... | Susan Almon |
| Brian Pettifer | ... | Vlasov |
| George Pravda | ... | Bukovsky |
| Shane Rimmer | ... | Jay |
| Bruce Boa | ... | McHenry |
 | Eugene Lipinski | ... | Yuri |
| Ray Jewers | ... | T.V. Interviewer |
| Bogdan Kominowski | ... | Stolypin Guard |
| Barrie Houghton | ... | Wisinski |
| Alexei Jawdokimov | ... | Vikstrom |
| Ivan Lee | ... | Chinaman |
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130 min | USA:119 min (VHS version)
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Iceland:10 |
Australia:M |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
West Germany:12 |
Finland:K-16 (video) (1988) |
Finland:(Banned) (theatrical release) (1985)
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Last film of George Pravda.
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This was a made for HBO movie about a star athlete in Moscow who is convinced by a Russian scientist to be a spy and is immediately arrested and sent to a labor camp in Siberia for 10 years, even though he did not commit the crime. The escape scene is exciting, but it seems to me he and his crew just couldn't have perfected that "false wall" in the train with lumber that was supplied to them to remove cement bags, and done it behind the guards backs. There's many other things, his incarceration in a cold cell for 3 months living on bread and water, yet still healthy, their trek off the train to the border in such short time, etc. One laughable scene is a gratuitous skin shot of the man's wife in the shower. Malcolm McDowell has a great part as a sarcastic English spy who knows how life in the camps works and how to survive. Strangely enough, he doesn't even reveal his name until the end.