"The Deep", movie

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This is one of my favorite movies. Oldie but a goodie. Have any of you seen it, from the same guy who wrote, Jaws? It's on DVD.

It's about a modern treasure hunt, complicated by a thug after morphine bottles atop the wreck of an old Spanish galleon.

Robert Shaw's final movie, also with Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett



I read the book, too. It has some good data on authenticating old Spanish treasure from sunken galleons. The heroes in this one were especially seeking a jewelled golden cross described as "being unique in all the world", if I quoted that right.

Benchley was a good writer, and the movies based on his books are closer to them than movies usually are.

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It's funny you mentioned this as my wife and I were looking for movies to pass the Eve with and I mentioned I wished we could find "The Deep"...one of my all time favorites and I always liked Robert Shaw.
 
Great movie. One of the few movies that I read the book first. I still watch it when I can. A Classic for me.

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One of my all-time faves, saw it in the theater back when it came out -- I was all of 13. Had read the book, and just loved the film version. The Jacqueline Bisset diving scenes in the t-shirt were VERY engaging at that age!

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Robert Shaw's final movie
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Nope, he got two more in: Force 10 From Navarone with Harrison Ford (1978) and his final, Avalanche Express (1979) with Lee Marvin and a bunch of others. He died during a filming break.
 
Yes, 'The Deep' is a VERY good movie, and it holds up very well for repeated viewing.Excellent plot, directing, and acting.

I saw it in the theater. A few years later, it was o TV...with all the 'good parts' of J. Bisset's scuba diving blurred out.

Damn shame!:mad:
 
That was a good movie and worth a repeat, thanks for mentioning it.

I was snorkling by Buck's Island in the Virgins in 1981 and the captian pointed out a distant island and said part of The Deep was filmed there.
A short while later I was swimming over a sunken freighter when first lots of bubbles and then something large and black came out of the ship.
It was a diver in a wet suit but for a second there all I could think of was that ell from the movie.
 
Haven't seen that movie for a good many years, need to do so again. I remember it as a very good flick, and I liked the story structure involving two different sets of characters interested in two very different things converging on the same spot. I may have a Netflix appointment this afternoon.

Robert Shaw -- liked him in nearly everything he did, but I particularly remember him as the icy villain in the second James Bond flick (From Russia...) and the Mossad agent in "Black Sunday."
 
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One of my all-time faves, saw it in the theater back when it came out -- I was all of 13. Had read the book, and just loved the film version. The Jacqueline Bisset diving scenes in the t-shirt were VERY engaging at that age!



Kinda surprising to find this thread on here and I guess it's as good a place as any for my first post ... because, FWTW, my (1st) wife was the dive double for Jacqueline Bisset in this movie. She, unfortunately, did NOT have all the same assets. :(

She and her (then) husband had a dive business on Little Dic's Bay in the BVI and that was how she got involved; said she taught Nick Nolte and Louis Gossett to dive for the filming.

Ya'll have a great new year!

Now, back to guns & roses & stuff...
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