"Ice Station Zebra" is a 1968 action film. It was directed by John Sturges and starred Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The screenplay by Alistair MacLean, Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W.R. Burnett is loosely based upon MacLean's 1963 novel of the same name. The plot involves American intelligence agents and a military team traveling by nuclear submarine to the arctic to recover film from a spy satellite.