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The Deep Details

1977

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Starring	Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett Jr.
Director	Peter Yates
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

The Deep

This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while diving one day they discover the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter and unearth a gold coin as well as a mysterious glass ampule. Excited, they believe their discovery could be a long lost treasure, but they soon learn that their most valuable discovery is actually an ampule of morphine, one of thousands left behind on the medical supply ship. This discovery leads them into the hands of Henry Cloche (Louis Gossett Jr.), an extremely dangerous and powerful Haitian drug dealer who will stop at nothing to unearth the dangerous treasure. With the help of Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), an old treasure hunter, David and Gail soon realize that they have made a much more important discovery than the morphine and set out to keep their actual treasure a secret. Director Peter Yates's suspenseful film features death-defying dives and exquisite underwater photography. Posters of Bissett underwater in a T-shirt adorned many a dorm wall in the late 1970s.

Starring	Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach
Director	Peter Yates
Studio	SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 56 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 4 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Dubbed	French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish Blu-ray: Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, English, Danish, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1977 To Rent: DVD: 18 Apr 2005 Blu-ray: not available

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- An expensive action picture which is singularly lacking in action and even in plot, but oozes with brutality and overdoes the splendours of submarine life, forty per cent of it taking place under water.
- 30117
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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- - 4
  - 0
  A Cracker.
  
  A great thriller with a great cast. The excellent Robert Shaw is reliable as ever and completely eclipses his co stars with a performance which reminded me of ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Roger Pearcey
  - Suffolk, England.
  - 19 Jan 2006 at 20:07
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  hidden treasure!
  
  this movie is like a fine wine which has aged well over the years!
  
  although the movie ending is rather predictable...the actors play a decent role...... read more »
  
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- - jackintheboxx
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  - Worcester
  - 30 Nov 2011 at 21:53
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  The deep1977
  
  Anyone interested in Scuba diving would enjoy this film. Its a classic with some interesting cinematography. Nick Nolte plays the tough guy American boyfriend ... read more »
  
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- - JJ009
  - 2 reviews
  - 24 Aug 2011 at 11:56
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  Shallow
  
  We went diving on the wreck of the Rhone which was where this was filmed - otherwise we would not have hired such dross.
  
  I complain about modern '... read more »
  
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- - NorthantsBerty
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  - 28 Apr 2009 at 09:17
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- 15 Jan 2005
Titanic director James Cameron has sunk to new depths in his latest film - a three dimensional documentary which sheds new light on the sea creatures which live miles below the ocean's surface. Swapping the decks of the Titanic for the depths of the ocean, Cameron's latest project, "Aliens of the Deep" uses the latest 3D technology to give viewers the feeling that they can almost reach out and touch the extraordinary creatures which lurk at the bottom of the sea and which are rarely... Read more

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  This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while ...

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  This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while ...