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The Deep

5.5

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Original title

The Deep

Year

1977

Running time

123 min.

Country

United States

Director

Peter Yates

Screenwriter

Peter Benchley. Novel: Peter Benchley

Cast

Music

John Barry

Cinematography

Christopher Challis

Producer

Co-production United States-United Kingdom;

Columbia Pictures

Genre

Adventure. Action. Mystery | Sea Adventures

Movie Groups

Peter Benchley Adaptations

Synopsis

Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, also wrote The Deep. A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater sequences and a look into the affairs of treasure hunting.

Awards: 1977: Nominated for Oscar: Best Sound

1977: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Song in a Motion Picture

1977: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Cinematography

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Critics' reviews

"It does away with a storyline and dances on the spot for two hours, taking voodoo, buried treasure, violence and sea monsters in its stride."

Time Out
"Any quasicompetent Hollywood hack of the 40s could have gone to town with this story, but under Yates's direction it merely lurches along, from one predictable danger to another."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"Anyone who can't help looking beyond the action for plausibility had better stay home"

Newsweek
"Efficient but rather colorless...It’s possible that inside this slick piece of engineering there is a genuinely mordant satire of human greed struggling to get out, but it never quite gets to the surface."

Variety Staff: Variety
"The film will mostly be remembered for Bisset's wet T-shirt sequences."

TV Guide
"The story, as well as Peter Yates's direction of it, is juvenile without being in any attractive way innarcent, but the underwater sequences are nice enough"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times

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The Deep

1977

Peter Yates

5.5

(1,283)