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The Deep
1977
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 .. Read more
| Starring | Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett Jr. |
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| Director | Peter Yates |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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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 |
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| 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 | DVD: 18 Apr 2005 Blu-ray: not available Production year: 1977 |
| Format | DVD |
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Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T-shirt, Donna Summer's title disco hit and Jaws author Peter Benchley co-scripting from his own novel were enough to make this soggy sea saga of rival divers after shipwrecked drugs a major box-office hit in the summer of 1977. With 40 per cent of his action taking place underwater in creepy depths, director Peter Yates doesn't have to do much to keep tension on an even keel, and the mean moray eel sequence is a real shocker when it arrives. But slick photography aside, the silly script and two-dimensional characterisations from Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw and Louis Gossett succeed in sinking plausibility every time anything resembling reality threatens to surface.
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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.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
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 his later character in 'Jaws'. The inner storyline which focuses on the two bodyguards from opposite camps is cleverly done and painfully spun out - you just KNOW they're going to 'mix it' eventually, and it's worth waiting for. A good old fashioned thriller with a satisfying ending. Full marks.
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The Deep - underwater adventure
Of all the Peter Benchley based films we rate 'The Deep' as the best. The plot is an interesting mix of drug dealers, treasure hunting and underwater adventure. The settings are perfect and the underwater scenes are brilliant. The cast are well chosen and play their parts well played.
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Deep, The - BLU-RAY Version
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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