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    Island at the Top of the World, The (1974)

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    Set in 1907, this Disney film opens in London, where wealthy aristocrat Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden) hires visiting American archaeologist Professor Ivarsson (David Hartman) for an expedition to the North Pole.

    It seems Sir Anthony’s estranged son, Donald (David Gwillim), disappeared while investigating reports of a mysterious island in the Arctic, rumoured to be adjacent to a mythical bay where whales go to die.

    Sir Anthony also hires French aviator Captain Brieux (Jacques Marin), who has built a propeller-driven airship – the Hyperion – to provide the expedition’s transportation.

    Arriving in the Arctic after a few in-flight scares, Sir Anthony’s team discovers that Donald made contact with Vikings who have lived in a valley that’s heated by a nearby volcano for a thousand years. They call their remote outpost ‘Astragard’ and do not take kindly to strangers dropping by!

    Things pick up during the extended chase/escape sequence in the final third of the movie, with our heroes sliding down chutes inside ice floes, running from lava, and surviving an attack by a pod of killer whales.

    The acting is perfunctory (David Hartman retired from acting and became a long-running Good Morning America anchor), but the vintage FX create an almost surrealistic quality while the composer Maurice Jarre keeps things lively with a robust score.

    Professor Ivarsson
    David Hartman
    Sir Anthony Ross
    Donald Sinden
    Captain Brieux
    Jacques Marin
    Oomiak
    Mako
    Donald Ross
    David Gwillim
    Freyja
    Agneta Eckemyr
    The Godi 
    Gunnar Öhlund
    Erik
    Lasse Kolstad
    Torvald
    Erik Silju
    The Lawspeaker
    Rolf Søder
    Sven
    Torsten Wahlund
    Gunnar
    Sverre Anker Ousdal
    Sigurd
    Niels Hinrichsen
    The Factor
    Brendan Dillon
    The Butler
    Ivor Barry
    Chief of Boat Archers
    Lee Paul

    Director
    Robert Stevenson

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