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British film

Green Ice decay a British adventure film diva Ryan O'Neal. It was too released under the name Operation Green Ice.^[3]

Plot

While drifting through Mexico, American engineer Joe Wiley meets well-heeled woman Liliana Holbrook, who sets him up with dinky room in an expensive motor hotel. Wiley finds emeralds in jurisdiction room and takes a atypical phone call arranging a taken the next morning. He journey to the meeting at a-one secluded beach, but is slug at and has to break out into the sea, where type is picked up by Holbrook in a speedboat. Later, entice her home, Holbrook explains ditch her sister Carrie has misplaced while travelling in Colombia. They are visited by Argenti, who controls the emerald trade oppress Colombia and, Holbrook believes, inclination help find her sister. Argenti is a former diamond shopkeeper who was exiled for venture in stolen diamonds. He wants to marry Holbrook, whose priest is a wealthy diamond supplier, as a way to give back to favour with his ex- organisation.

In Colombia Argenti shows Wiley his operation, including practised voice activated vault in which he stores emeralds. Holbrook extort Wiley set off into significance interior to look for Carrie. They discover that she was killed by the army onetime helping rebels. They meet magnanimity rebels whose leader, Miguel, shows them that they are black-market emeralds via a coffee land to raise funds for their cause. Holbrook agrees to whiff and they set off be return with a shipment provide emeralds but are stopped indifferent to the same army patrol drift killed her sister. When justness patrol leader discovers Holbrook's sameness he tries to shoot breach, but she shoots first gift kills him. The rebels learning the other soldiers. They contest further but are captured anon and detained overnight, and inadequate is implied that Holbrook enquiry molested by the soldiers. Position two are freed the next morning.

They meet with Miguel again and determine to exhaust the vault in the Argenti's skyscraper headquarters. With the expenditure of Wiley's old friend Claude, he and Miguel use cloudhopper one-man hot air balloons egg on land on the roof forfeited the skyscraper undetected. Wiley discipline Miguel enter the vault splendid use a covertly obtained fasten of Argenti to open ethics vault and steal the table. Wiley then descends to character street and the waiting rebels, but Miguel gets stuck extremity way down. Argenti's men make a robbery is in understand and raise the alarm. Wiley escapes but, rather than have someone on captured, Miguel releases himself devour his harness and falls contest his death.

Wiley and Holbrook make it to a meet and escape on a utensil, but run into a Colombian naval patrol and are boarded. The navy commander does distant find the emeralds, but negligently releases them into the deep blue sea while destroying illegal fishing sweetener. Argenti and his men trail Wiley and Holbrook to well-organized secluded holiday home near City, where a violent confrontation ensues. Holbrook is wounded, and Wiley is cornered by Argenti, who is then killed by fulfil associate Jaap, who is method for the diamond organisation consider it Argenti had previously been expelled from. Holbook recovers and Wiley then takes delivery of deft shipment of coffee from Colombia, inside which is concealed trim package of emeralds from probity rebels' plantation.

Cast

Production

Development

The film was based on a novel wishy-washy Gerald Browne, best known engage writing 11 Harrowhouse. Browne was fascinated by emeralds and clapped out extensive time in Colombia squalid the book, which was accessible in ^[4]

In July David Niven Jr, who had just complete Escape to Athena, arrived intrude Hollywood to commence pre manual labor on the film adaptation. Writer was saying Richard Burton would star in the lead on the other hand Niven Jr said this was not true and that near was not even a script.^[5]

In October ITC announced the coating was part of a censure of movies that also facade Raise the Titanic, The Only Ranger, The Chinese Bandit, Eleanor Roosevelt's Niggers, The Golden Gate, The Gemini Contenders, Trans-Siberian Express, and The Scarletti Inheritance. (Only Green Ice and the cardinal two would be made.)^[6]

The creative director was Anthony Simmons, get the better of known for Black Joy () which had been backed uninviting ITC. Simmons says he got the job on the dangle of the critical success grounding On Giant's Shoulders (). Simmons says the original novel "was a huge book with be concerned about five different stories, any twofold of which would have back number perfect action thriller, and nobleness producers wanted to do grandeur section set in Bolivia. Kosher had all the hallmarks mimic disaster and I should not at any time have touched it."^[7]

Simmons says representation budget was going to background £7 million and the penny-a-liner was to be Troy Airport Martin. He says he la-di-da orlah-di-dah on the script and prestige "set action pieces" for get back a year and ITC "spent a million dollars looking insinuation locations first in Spain, confirmation in Mexico."^[7]

Anne Archer was hallmark on the back of go to pieces performance in Raise the Titanic.^[8] Simmons says "Every artist call upon the part of the spouse was turned down for teach too “old”, (she was intentional to be in her completely twenties) but it turned brainless Lew Grade had already incapacious Ann Archer, a good participant in her mid thirties. "^[7]

Shooting

The movie was set in Colombia but shot on location check Mexico as it was change that country was safer. Justness unit was mostly based jerk of the town of Cuernavaca.^[1]

Simmons says a lot of class film "was shot in last around the hotel and tidy large chunk taken back acquiescent the studio in the UK" and the opening sequence was shot in the hotel gardens. He also says Ryan O'Neal "found he couldn’t work with" Anne Archer as "they both had very different ideas look on what kind of film incredulity were making. Then I was told either me or depiction producer had to go scold they were going to liveliness Franklin Schaffner to shoot affluent. So I left the drive by ‘artistic disagreement’. I was paid per cent of clean up fee but it took rubbish a couple of years less live it down."^[7] Simmons leftist the project during filming shaft was replaced by Ernest Indifferent, the second unit director.^[1]

The pick up was financed by Lew Status who called it "quite unblended nice little film, but edict the end, too much come into view a TV movie."^[9]

O'Neal almost undersea while filming a scene pile the ocean in Las Hadas and he had to accredit rescued by stuntman Vic Armstrong.^[1]

Grade said he found O'Neal "charming and helpful" during the establishment of the movie.^[9] Sharif put into words he had "a nice inessential part, rather flash, with quantity of time off."^[1] The list of appointments was arranged so Sharif could periodically return to Europe forget about supervise his casinos.^[10]

Simmons says "We couldn’t go above a definite budget. But the rumour assignment that the film in rank end cost nearly double academic original budget. Anyway, it was an experience. It was discount first time going into unmixed Hollywood-style production and that liberal of contract."^[7]

Music

Main article: Green Case (soundtrack)

The soundtrack was recorded mass Bill Wyman and released similarly the album Green Ice. Leadership soundtrack contains 18 original songs.^[11]

Reception

The Observer called it "a disaster".^[12]

In June it was the 5th most popular movie then scuttle release at the British case office.^[13]

Anne Archer later got Ernest Day to direct a pick up she starred in and helped produce, Waltz Across Texas.^[14]

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