- The Deep (film)
Infobox Film
name = The Deep
caption = original movie poster
director =Peter Yates
producer =Peter Guber
writer =Peter Benchley Tracy Keenan Wynn
starring = Robert ShawJacqueline Bisset Nick Nolte
music = John Barry
cinematography =Christopher Challis
editing =David Berlatsky
distributor =Sony Pictures Entertainment
released = 1977
runtime = 124 min.
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:13037
imdb_id = 0075925"The Deep" is a 1977 film directed by
Peter Yates based on the novel byPeter Benchley .A pair of young vacationers become involved in a dangerous conflict with local drug dealing criminals when they discover a fortune in sunken World War Two-era morphine — and another fortune in 17th century Spanish treasure — in shipwrecks on the Bermuda reefs.
Filming
Many of the open water diving sequences of the film were shot on the wreck of the
RMS Rhone in theBritish Virgin Islands .The film's poster alludes to an oft-cited clip of the film, in which a T-shirted and braless Jacqueline Bisset swims hurriedly to the surface.
Main cast
*Robert Shaw – as Romer Treece
*Jacqueline Bisset – as Gail Berke
*Nick Nolte – as David Sanders
*Louis Gossett, Jr. – as Henri Cloche
*Eli Wallach – as Adam Coffin
*Dick Anthony Williams – as Slake
*Earl Maynard – as Ronald
*Bob Minor – as Wiley
*Teddy Tucker – as The Harbor Master
*Robert Tessier – as Kevin
*Lee McClain – as JohnsonExternal links
*imdb title|id=0075925|title=The Deep
*rotten-tomatoes|id=deep|title=The Deep
*mojo title|id=deep|title=The Deep
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