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Genres:
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Horror /
Mystery /
Adventure /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Peter Yates
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Actors:
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Robert Shaw,
Dick Anthony Williams,
Bob Minor,
Earl Maynard,
Teddy Tucker,
Lee McClain,
Jacqueline Bisset,
Nick Nolte,
Louis Gossett Jr.,
Eli Wallach,
Robert Tessier
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Duration:
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123 min.
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Rating:
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(5.9/10)354.5
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Plot Summary:
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This visually extraordinary action-risk film, based on the best-selling novel away JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Collar depart Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a yoke on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. Fashionable Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while diving anybody time they a glimpse of the sunken demolish of a WWII freighter and unearth a gold change as by a long chalk as a curious microscope spectacles ampule. Turned on, they believe their idea could be a long extinct gem, but they momentarily learn that their most valuable di... scovery is really an ampule of morphine, anyone of thousands left behind on the medical stockpile ship. This ascertaining leads them into the hands of Henry Cloche (Louis Gossett Jr.), an hellishly precarious and high Haitian drug stockist who will stop at nothing to unearth the dangerous treasure. With the assist of Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), an broken-down delight Nimrod, David and Gail soon realize that they have made a much more important development than the morphine and depart out to accumulate their real treasure a affair. Director Peter Yates's suspenseful overlay features death-defying dives and fine underwater photography. Posters of Bissett underwater in a T-shirt adorned multifarious a dorm wall in the late 1970s.
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Deep, The
For a while in the 1970s Peter Benchley, son of Robert, could do no wrong, and this adaptation of his best-selling novel was another blockbuster, although not quite of Jaws-proportions. Shaw does a virtual reprise of his old sea dog from the shark movie, here helping Bisset and Nolte in their efforts to recover some sunken treasure. But there's a nasty surprise lurking in the watery depths. Director Yates keeps the largely underwater action ticking along at a reasonable pace, but there's something fundamentally silly about the story and this offers few temptations beyond Bisset's one-woman wet tee-shirt contest.
Deep, The
For a while in the 1970s Peter Benchley, son of Robert, could do no wrong, and this reworking of his -selling novel was another blockbuster, although not totally of Jaws-proportions. Shaw does a accepted reprise of his olden swell dog from the shark movie, here helping Bisset and Nolte in their efforts to recover some sunken treasure. But there's a nasty surprise lurking in the watery depths. Headman Yates keeps the by underwater action ticking along at a reasonable walk, but there's something fundamentally ridiculous anent the story and this offers few temptations beyond Bisset's complete-miss humidity tee-shirt contest.
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