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    Home»Movies»Movies by Decade»1970s Movies»Movies 1977
    Movies 1977 Movies D 2 Mins Read

    Deep, The (1977)

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    The second of a watery trilogy of films deriving from the novels of Peter Benchley (Jaws came before it in 1975, and The Island after in 1980).

    Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte starred as Gail Berke and David Sanders, a couple of treasure-seekers who became entangled in voodoo and drug smuggling off the coast of Bermuda.

    With 40% of his action taking place underwater in creepy depths, director Peter Yates didn’t have to do much to keep tension on an even keel, and the mean moray eel sequence was a real shocker.

    Slick photography aside, the silly script about rival divers searching for shipwrecked drugs and two-dimensional characterisations from Nolte, Robert Shaw (as a grumpy seafarer called Romer Treece who lives in a converted Lighthouse) and Louis Gossett Jr (as local crime lord Henri Cloche) succeeded in sinking plausibility every time anything resembling reality threatened to surface.

    But Bisset in a wet T-shirt and Donna Summer‘s title disco hit were enough to make this soggy saga a major box-office hit in the summer of 1977.

    Romer Treece
    Robert Shaw
    Gail Berke
    Jacqueline Bisset
    David Sanders
    Nick Nolte
    Henri Cloche
    Louis Gossett Jr
    Adam Coffin
    Eli Wallach
    Kevin
    Robert Tessier
    Ronald
    Earl Maynard
    Slake
    Dick Anthony Williams
    Wiley
    Bob Minor
    Johnson
    Lee McClain
    Young Adam Coffin
    Peter Wallach
    Young Romer Treece
    Colin Shaw
    Mate
    Peter Benchley

    Director
    Peter Yates

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