Ice Palace is a 1960 Technicolor historical drama adventure film directed by Vincent Sherman and adapted from a novel of 1958 written by Edna Ferber.

The film tells the story of Zeb Kennedy and Thor Storm, Alaska settlers in the period following World War I. Kennedy works his way up through the Alaskan fish cannery business, befriending Wang, a Chinese worker, and Storm, an idealistic fishing boat captain.

The feeling is reciprocated, but Kennedy chooses money over love, marrying Seattle heiress Dorothy Wendt.

When Storm discovers his disappointed fiancée's infidelity, he punches out Kennedy and flees into the wilderness on a dog sled.

Storm returns to Baranof with an infant son, Christopher, born to an Eskimo wife who died after labor.

They set off by dog sled, but Grace begins labor en route and Christopher is waylaid by a bear and killed.

Ballantyne prevails on Kennedy to make a risky flight to save Storm and his pilot, an Eskimo named Ross Guildenstern.

Victorious, Storm gives a conciliatory radio address, thanking erstwhile statehood opponent Kennedy.

[11] In July 1959 it was announced Richard Burton and Robert Ryan would star, and Vincent Sherman would direct.

"[15] The New York Times reviewer called it "as false and synthetic a screen saga as has rolled out of a color camera" and "no more authentic than cornstarch snow on a studio set.

"[16] Sheila Toomey of the Anchorage Daily News, writing in 1996 about the Northward Building in downtown Fairbanks and its lore relative to the film, wrote "But in 1958 the Northward, a hulking steel-sided apartment complex, was immortalized in a bad novel, followed by an even worse movie, both called The Ice Palace".