S.O.S. Iceberg

Director: Arnold Fanck, Tay Garnett Arnold Fanck

Overview

In the same year that she directed Victory of the Faith (1933), her first of several famous cinematic projects for the Nazi Party, German actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl played a supporting role in this epic adventure, co-written and co-directed by her frequent "mountain film" collaborator Dr. Arnold Fanck. Rod La Rocque stars as Dr. Carl Lawrence, leader of a mission to Greenland to recover the lost records of the ill-fated, real-life Alfred Lothar Wegener polar expedition of 1929-30. Lawrence's party includes experienced explorer/guides, as well as an adventure-seeking financier, who is in over his head and slowly driven mad by the perils of the voyage. When Lawrence's band is trapped on an iceberg, Lawrence's wife Ellen (Riefenstahl) -- a famous female pilot fashioned after Amelia Earhart -- takes off on a rescue mission, but she crashes her aircraft upon landing and is stranded along with the others. Before total disaster claims the Lawrence party, however, native eskimos and Major Ernst Udet (playing himself) arrive via kayak to save the day. Two surviving members of the Wegener party served as advisors for this well-received Man vs. Nature treatise, filmed on location in Greenland.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/08/2005
UPC:	0738329042226
Original Release:	1933
Source:	Kino Lorber
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:42:00
Sales rank:	53,930

Special Features

Alternate English language version; Optional English subtitles; Photo gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gustav Diessl	Dr. Carl Lawrence
Leni Riefenstahl	Ellen Lawrence
Gibson Gowland	John Dragan
Max Holzboer	Dr. Jan Matushek
Sepp Rist	Dr. Johannes Brand
Walter Riml	Fritz Kummel
Ernst Udet	Ernst Udet
Rod La Rocque	Dr. Carl Lawrence
Paul Dessau	Composer

Technical Credits

Tom Reed

Edwin H. Knopf

Tay Garnett

Arnold Fanck	Director
Tom Reed	Screenwriter
Edwin H. Knopf	Screenwriter
Carl Laemmle Jr.	Producer
Tay Garnett	Director,Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- S.O.S. Iceberg
1. Opening Titles [:09]
2. Mapping Out a Plan [:11]
3. Outpost Abandoned [6:13]
4. Precarious Launch [5:03]
5. Polar Bear [5:13]
6. Finding Karl [6:12]
7. S.O.S. Iceberg [5:32]
8. Leap of Faith [5:26]
9. Among the Wreckage [11:22]
10. Stuggle for Survival [10:42]
11. Hope in the Air [8:38]
12. Native Fleet [6:02]
1. Opening Titles [:09]
2. Charting a Course [7:13]
3. The Barren Wasteland [3:12]
4. The Wegener Camp [8:16]
5. Finding Carl [11:15]
6. S.O.S. Iceberg [5:24]
7. Salvation Denied [7:58]
8. Leap of Faith [6:13]
9. Second Chance [6:28]
10. Polar Bear [8:22]
11. Native Fleet [5:08]
12. Epilogue [5:41]

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