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Notes
Ice Station Zebra (1968) is a Cold War thriller following a U.S. submarine and its mysterious British passenger on a top-secret mission to the North Pole. Based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, the film features fine performances by Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine and an all-male supporting cast. The combination of realistic military protocol and high-adventure espionage - as well as groundbreaking special effects and production design - won the film many admirers, among them the late Howard Hughes.
Michel Legrand was best-known for pop-based scores like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Thomas Crown Affair, but was no less creative and dynamic in the symphonic Hollywood idiom. His Ice Station Zebra soundtrack is at once epic yet also offbeat, with powerful main themes dressed in an intricate web of mystery and suspense. The film is first and foremost a military story, but in Legrand's hands it becomes almost like a Cold War ballet, with a polished, artistic sheen to its danger. Legrand himself provided the terrific orchestrations and conducted the 75-piece orchestra in a five-channel stereo recording.
The Ice Station Zebra soundtrack was released on LP at the time of the film, a 30:14 program that was reissued on CD by Pendulum Entertainment Group in 1997 (now out-of-print). Film Score Monthly's premiere release of the complete score runs 79:20 (including deleted cues), is resequenced into film order, and remixed from the original master elements for significantly improved sound. It is the definitive presentation of the Ice Station Zebra soundtrack.
Packaging & Liner Notes
Standard jewel case. Superb colour booket with excellent liner notes.
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Track Listing

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Overture
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Main Title/Satellite/Jones Arrives/All Aboard
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Voyage Starts/Russian Trawler
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Wrong Bunk/The Mysterious Rendezvous
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Opaque Water
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Under the Ice
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Bring Her Up/Tigerfish Hits Ice/Intermission Card
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Entr'Acte/Crewman Falls Into Crevasse/Tigerfish Submerges
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Jones Searches Meteorology Lab
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Unidentified Aircraft/Russian Planes
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Jones Finds Detector
Michel Legrand |
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Anders Sho
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Russian Paratroops Land
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Vaslov Opens Capsule
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Ostrovsky and Ferraday Face Each Other/Colored Smoke/Balloon Explodes/End Title and Credits
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