The Ice Runner Movie Review 1993

Low-key Cold War thriller, filmed in 1991, about a U.S. spy who escapes from the Soviet gulag. Jeffrey West (Albert) gets caught in a botched payoff to a Soviet minister and when the diplomats wash their hands of him a rigged trial has West sentenced to 12 years hard labor. A convenient train wreck lets him assume a different prisoner's name which gets him to a minimum security camp under the eyes of a suspicious commander. Now West needs to escape and cross 39 miles of icy tundra separating his Russian prison from American freedom.

Distribution

Monarch Home Video, 2 Ingram Blvd., La Vergne, TN 37086-7006, Phone: (615)287-4632, Fax: (615)287-4992, Email: dan.norem@ingramemtertainment.com, URL: http://www.monarchvideo.com

Available on VHS
Running time 116 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Cold War Spies, Cold Spots, Great Escapes, Russia/USSR

Screenplay

Joyce Warren, Clifford Coleman, Joshua Stallings

Cast

Edward Albert, Eugene (Yevgeny) Lazarev, Olga Kabo, Victor Wong, Alexander Kuznitsov, Basil Hoffman, Bill Bordy, Sergei Ruban

Director

Barry Samson

Producer

Jeffrey M. Sneller, Samuel Sneller, Gold Leaf International