Free The Deep
Genres: ThrillerAdventureHor
Starring: Eli Wallach, Jacqueline Bisset, Dick Anthony Williams, Nick Nolte, Bob Minor, Robert Shaw, Louis Gossett Jr.
Director(s): Peter Yates
Country: USA
Year: 1977
IMDB Rating: 5.9
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater sequences and a look into the affairs of treasure hunting. Based on a novel by Peter Jaws Benchley.
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Visitors Review
malcotoro (13 May 2013)
Treasure hunt underwater, romantic music of John Barry
I have the movie on Video, would buy it on DVD, I have read all theother reviews and surprised nobody mentioned the great music by JohnBarry. The theme made it to the radio top hits in 1977 For me, themusic makes this movie, together with the three main stars includingShaw, Nolte and the beautiful Jacqueline Bisset. Is there an actresstoday quite so stunning? Don't think so... The Deep probably did nothave the impact of Peter Benchley's Jaws but I like it just as much.The music is more melodic, the warmer location Bermuda, in contrast tothe cooler Cape Cod of Jaws. I always appreciate a good treasure huntanyway, Spanish doubloons and the possibility of reef predators addsinterest. Watch it just to see Bisset in skimpy scuba swimsuit... youwon't be disappointed
(12 May 2013)
The Deep
This review is from: The Deep [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray) Great scenery of Bermuda. Good movie especially if you're a diver. Found the extra commentary to be interesting. I would recommend this.
daniel (06 May 2013)
Its No Jaws.
This adventure is no Jaws. But still, it is a good thriller. I liked everything that this has going for it until the bad ending. Predictable as it was, it still told a good story. Shaw is here and he is in Jaws.
ShadeGrenade (06 May 2013)
Getting soaking wet with sexy Jackie
'The Deep', Peter Benchley's first published work since thephenomenally successful 'Jaws', retains the sea as a backdrop, butinstead of 'man vs.nature', is more akin to an Alistair Macleanpotboiler. David Sanders ( Nick Nolte ) and Gail Burke ( JacquelineBisset ) are treasure hunting in Bermuda waters when they find anantique Spanish coin and an ampule containing an unidentified liquid.Grumpy maritime historian Romer Treece ( Robert Shaw ) warns them thatunless they dispose of the ampule quickly they are in big trouble. Newsof their discovery leaks and a sinister Frenchman named Henri Cloche (Lou Gossett ) offers to buy it from them. When they turn him down, hedecides to take it anyway. Soon the young couple are chased all overthe island on their little motorbikes and David has to watch while Gailis made to take her top off in front of Cloche and his smirking thugs.The ampule contains morphine and came from a sunken wartime ship called'Goliath'. If there are other ampule's down there they are worth afortune on the streets of New York...Critics unfavourably ( and unfairly ) compared this to 'Jaws' when itcame out. A gang of idiots from my school trooped along to the cinemaone Saturday afternoon in the mistaken belief that it was the officialsequel to 'Jaws'! ( 'Jaws 2' had yet to be made ). There were a lot oflong faces in the playground on Monday morning. "Jaws wasn't in it!"was one typical comment.'The Deep' is a handsome production, well directed by Peter Yates,beautifully photographed and with some nice set pieces, such as theafore-mentioned bike chase and an eerie scene in which our heroes areattacked by a moray eel while searching the wreck, not forgetting theviolent fight between good-guy Kevin and one of Cloche's man whichculminates in the spectacle of both trying to break each other's necksat the same time. John Barry provides a lush musical score ( '70'sdisco queen Donna Summer performed a vocal version of the main theme ),and overall the whole film passes two hours nicely. Robert Shaw ( thennearing the end of his life ) as 'Treece' is basically Quint from'Jaws' with a Cornish accent. Nick Nolte had just graduated into filmsfrom the blockbuster television series 'Rich Man, Poor Man'. At timeshe looks like a Welsh rugby player, with that long hair and moustache.But the real star is undoubtedly Jacqueline Bisset, the Liz Hurley ofher day. The shots of her frolicking about underwater in a clinging wetT-shirt ( sans bra ) made this a much talked about movie on release.She later regretted doing the picture, describing it as 'exploitative'.Benchley continued writing nautical adventures until his death in 2006.
(05 May 2013)
I've been wanting this for ages!
This review is from: The Deep (DVD) And found it here on Amazon. I remember when the movie first came out and I have always loved it. Nick Nolte back when he looked awesome, all the on location scenes, and the late Robert Shaw. You can't go wrong!Oh, and if you're a guy or into Jacqueline Bisset, she looks awesome as well. The guys will like her in the wet t-shirts. LOL
(05 May 2013)
WideScreen Version
Based on some of the reviews posted from other buyers of "THE DEEP", there seems to be much concern about the original version presented in it's original aspect ratio. This version with the graphic of a female diver swiming upwards is a double sided disk. One side is presented in the full frame aspect, while the other side is presented in it's 235-1 aspect ratio. The distributor is Columbia Pictures, not Image Entertainment. The running time is 126 minutes. The lable on the dvd case reports that the audio is "Dolby Surround".I really do not feel that I have to review the film itself. I give the film 3.5 out of 4 stars. It would be nice to see a copy released with the deleted scenes from the start of the movie showing the sinking of the Golieth, and the discovery of the lone servivior. That was edited into the original broadcast on the A.B.C. network, and has not been seen since.
kookookeedoo (29 April 2013)
This movie is terribly underrated...
I'm not sure why this film doesn't have a better score, it really is atreat to watch. I think the fact that Peter Benchley wrote it and itrevolves around the ocean people are expecting something "Jaws"-esque,which it definitely is not. What it is is a great film about diving forlost treasure and keeping one step ahead of a local drug kingpin(Gossett) who has his own interests in what lies below. Robert Shaw isexcellent (as usual), as is the rest of the cast. It saddens me thatsome people have called it "slow". I think it has a good pace, with anice amount of action mixed in. It's interesting that this movie wasbasically "re-made" (more like stolen if you ask me) as "Into theBlue", which was a complete stinker. THAT film was so incredibly slowthat not even Jessica Alba's hotness could rescue it.If you like films about diving or lost treasure, you should definitelycheck it out- but I would recommend this film to anyone who prefers agood storyline to films that are all flash and no substance.
(28 April 2013)
Awful storyline. Decent acting. Bisset is gorgeous.
This review is from: The Deep (DVD) Wow. Nostalgia? What is it that makes this movie good? Nick Nolte was terrible. If Bisset wasn't so hot I would have turned this off. The story is choppy and not captivating. INTO THE BLUE was a far better movie with a lot more going for it.
(28 April 2013)
Jacqueline Bisset Underwater and a wet t-shirt...YOU GO GIRL!!!
This review is from: The Deep (DVD) I had a chance to revisit this film recently. This movie offers plenty of excitement underwater.Jacqueline Bisset's performance is first rate and by the way, she looks great in a Wet T-Shirt and that underwater mask! This is one of the reasons I liked The Deep!
nama chakravorty (28 April 2013)
1977 classic....
Peter Yates made terrific cinema in 'The Deep'.The novel, I am sure, it's readers would've surely given them chillsdown their spine... in the underwater chapters.... Happily, 1977 brought in a classic hit... 'The Deep', did justice toit's novel {I haven't read, but I am confident it has, cause this filmis just rocking}.... It's a pleasure to see a film like this, whichmakes you smile when you watch cinema of old times, or in other wordscinema of yore. The noted filmmaker does justice to it's viewer, he fills up theadventure, exploits the heroine's goodies with gusto, and packs inthrilling & highly commendable sequences. Everything works here, let'snot forget for a second, this film was made 32 years ago... these filmsare the reason how cinema changed time by time. A winner all the way!Performance-wise: Nick Nolte is slender, but it's Jacqueline Bisset whosteals the show. She looks gorgeous and flaunts her body with ease,she's THE hotty of the 70's. Late Actor Robert Shaw is excellent. on the whole, Take a dive into this!
hacker-9 (25 April 2013)
Never mind the T shirt- treasure Shaw the master !!
"The Deep" presents as a veritable Smorgasbord of delightful scenery,strongcasting and underwater excitement; in reality the feast is not quite assatisfying as it should be, probably due to the seriously silly plotdevelopment..The leads are fine, though; a youthful, pre-jaded looking Nick Noltecombining happily with Miss Bisset and THAT T shirt- who can blame him?!Watch out for baddie Lou Gossett in good form, but especially marvel at thesheer charisma, in a fairly unflattering role, of the late great RobertShaw, surely one of Britain's most gifted screen performers.
(24 April 2013)
The Deep
I had seen this movie on TV many years ago, and wanted to watch the whole thing. It's not available in video stores. I enjoyed it very much as did my husband, who had never seen it. The movie is based on the book by Peter Benchley who wrote "Jaws". I recall an intro from the TV showing that appears to be missing from the video. It shows the submarine being wrecked off of the coast of Bermuda and a young Romer Treece finding Adam Coffin on the beach. Whatever the movie lacks in substance is made up for in the fine talents of Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bissett, and Louis Gossett, Jr. This was one of the last movies that Robert Shaw made. His early death was a great loss to the movie industry.
VoiceofTJ (24 April 2013)
And the award for best support goes to...Ms. Bissett's T-shirt!
OK, I need to vent for a second. There are times when reading other users comments on these films when Ihave to ask myself...did they actually watch the movie? Or did someone tellthem about it? Because, all too often, I find comments like "There is alsoa fight between Gossett's and Shaw's top men involving chainsaws that isquite tense. " Again, did they watch the film? Or perhaps this was writtenby the most mechanically dis-inclinded human on earth, who can't tell anoutboard motor from a chainsaw. OK, off my soapbox.Now, about the film.Some of the best underwater work ever. (Kudos to Mr. Nolte for the goofy,"I'm OK" grin!) Decent plot, good work from good actors, good suspense, anda solid performance from the eel. I enjoyed it, and it's a great popcornfilm. No message, (well, unless you count 'Don't put your head in an eelsmouth!'), just treasure, action, good guys, bad guys, and a prettygirl.
sol (23 April 2013)
Jackie Bisset is the real underwater treasure in "The Deep"
***SPOILERS*** The first five minutes or so of the movie "the Deep"with the beautiful Jackie Bisset scuba diving underwater with her wetT-shirt is so hot and sizzling that it almost evaporated the waters ofthe Caribbean Sea.After seeing Miss. Bisset You completely lost interest in the sunkentreasure of Spanish 18th century gold and the US navy supply ship"Goliath" that sank during WWII with it's cargo of some 100,000valuable anvils of morphine worth millions of dollars on the citystreets as illegal drugs. The movie "The Deep" in itself is a so/so story about a young coupleDavid Sanders & Gail Berke, Nick Nolte & Jackie Bisset, on vacation inBermuda. Davir & Gail together with the help of a local sea rummy andhistorian Romer Treece, Robert Shaw, try to recover a sunken treasurechest of Spanish gold coins and jewelry that sank under the wavesduring a hurricane off the coast of Florida in 1715. Some 230 yearslater a US navy supply ship named "Goliath" with a load of morphineanvils sank in the exact same spot on top of the French carryingSpanish treasure tobacco ship "Griffin" that secretly had the gold puton it by the Spanish governor of Cuba;to prevent the royal family aswell as the Spanish government from knowing about it and keeping it allfor himself.This all attracts a local Bermuda drug gang led by Henri Cloche and histop henchman Slake, Lou Gossett Jr. & Dick Anthony Williams, to try toget to the underwater site, they knew nothing about the Spanishtreasure, and grab the morphine anvils. This all results later in themovie in a spectacular underwater battle between Treece and David withColche and Slake. Slake drowns and Cloche become the lunch for a giantmoray eel that was living inside the hull of the ship "Goliath" at theend of the movie.There's also Treece's helper Adam Coffin, Eli Wallach, who Treece savefrom the very ship "Goliath" after it sank in WWII who joins in withthe drug gang in order to double cross Treece, a good friend is hard tofind, and get a share of the drugs and money for himself. Treece wasgoing to destroy the morphine anvils which is one of the reasons thatCoffin put his lot in with the drug gang and sets up Treece's bestfriend Kevin, Robert Tessler, to get murdered by Slake later in thefilm. Coffin ends up in a coffin, or whatever pieces that they can find ofhim, later on when he tries to break into the lighthouse where hethought that Treece kept the morphine anvils, but had a trap set up byhim with explosives for anyone who tries to break in. Both David and Gail as well as Treece go through the ringer in themovie as their kidnapped beaten and almost drowned as well as eaten bythe giant moray eel and in the case of Gail she's also put through, bythe drug thugs, some weird and bloody voodoo ritual that almost drivesher mad. After dispatching both Cloche & Slake Treece detonates the explosivesinside the "Goliath" and that knocks it off the coral reef that it wasresting on and into the bottomless and dark Caribbean Sea out of thehands of Cloche's remaining drug gang members. At the end of the filmTreece dives underwater, as the explosions were going off, and recoversa providence, a piece of jewelry that can prove that the gold andjewelry were genuine 18th sunken Spanish treasure, a golden and greenemerald studded dragon necklace. A fairly good sunken treasure film but it was Jackie Bisset, wetT-shirt and all, that was the real treasure in the movie "The Deep" andas soon as you saw her swimming underwater with a pair of lungs thatcan keep you afloat, better the any life preserver. Nothing, nothing atall, could top that opening underwater sequence.
didi-5 (21 April 2013)
clunky water adventure from the writer of 'Jaws'
Treasure-hunting in the ocean 1970s-style. Young couple David (NickNolte) and Gail (the alluring Jacqueline Bisset) team up with ageingmodern pirate Romer Treece (Robert Shaw in a role not unlike Quint in'Jaws', only more of a send-up), to discover just what they've foundwhen taking a dive at the start of the movie.What they do find is so hot it sparks the interest of the localvillain, Henri Cloche (Lou Gossett, silky and evil) and his varioushenchmen. 'The Deep' is mostly a lot of deep-sea diving (perhaps toshow off Bisset's assets in her wet t-shirt) and a lot of silly talkabout treasure. What story it has waves goodbye very early on, but it'sstill enjoyable.
(21 April 2013)
wrong cover image...not widescreen
This review is from: The Deep (DVD) I ordered 'The Deep' DVD from Amazon , and based on the cover image shown and thedescription I thought it was the wide screen version of the film. The DVD I ordered was from an Amazon seller, but showed as being 'fulfilled by Amazon'. After receiving the DVD I realized it was the full screen version of the film.I called customer service ,received a refund and a return label for the incorrectDVD, and was told to order again because the first order had come from an Amazon seller(but fulfilled by Amazon). I ordered a second time directly from Amazon and again received the incorrect fullscreen version of the film. The full screen version of the DVD has a totally different cover showing the pictures of all the actors in the film. I alsoreceived a refund for the second DVD.
(20 April 2013)
The Granddady of at home "Disc" movies available here!
This review is from: The Deep (DVD) The Deep was a most enjoyable veteran of the "Disc Revolution" I had copies of this movie in(Remember) RCA Selectavision and Pioneer's Laser Disc. I was thrilled to encounter it at Amazon.com at a very typical reasonable price. This movie is Nick Nolte at his best! Fast paced underwater adventure set in the Caribbean offers diving thrills a minute as Nolte and Company find the huge catch of..... Wait- Why spoil the movie for you! Buy it at this low price and enjoy!
GregM (20 April 2013)
The Magnificent DEEP Sea!
An awe-inspiring movie which was a great adaptation from book to the Big screen. This film appeals to wide range of audiences purely for the phenonemal underwater cinematography by Stan Water (Our World Underwater-Chicago). Still today if you meet him at the show he will describe his account of the agony of filming the beautiful Jacqueline Bisset (t-shirt diving) underwater with Nick Nolte. Along with Robert Shaw and Louis Gosset Jr., these four actors work perfectly together to portray the mysteries of the sea in the 1970's. Global warming and over-fishing have drastically hammered the underwater environ ever since. You simply will not find the sea in such a magnificent condition unless we remember through underwater movies like these and Jacques Yves Cousteau's. Wow, how magnificent the Deep Sea used to be! Nautical Regards, Chief Marine Science Technician Gregory Morris
(16 April 2013)
"classic", but...
This review is from: The Deep (DVD) Considering that you probably want to see only the first 5-10 minutes of this movie-well, you know why-then maybe you are paying too much.
Freddy Levit (15 April 2013)
Simplistic, suspenseful, scenicly breathtaking, - pure escapism. A 'Shaw' good time!
Peter Yates directed this beautiful escape from reality adventure inwhich our protagonists Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissete team up withthe silver screen legend Robert Shaw to find a sunken treasure off thebeaches of Bermuda. Unfortunately they encounter competition who wouldgo at great lengths to get what they want - even if it means murder -unless our protagonists' intrepid assistant (Robert Shaw) uses hisvaluable knowledge to keep the tables turned and remain one step ahead.This film is a delight from start to finish. From the opening sequencesof clearing clouds and Bermuda coming into focus and the astonishingunderwater photograpy to the action packed adventurous finally, yousimply can not take your eyes off the screen. The music from the oneand only John Barry (who bought you the unforgettable themes from JamesBond and Born Free) is mesmerizing and suits the picture elegantly. Thecinematography is beautiful and gives you a lust for the holidaydestination. Most importantly, the plot (written by the man who boughtyou 'JAWS') is original and riveting and high in adventure - I trulyrecommend this to all adventure fans.Cast selection was genius. At the time, Nick Nolte was a new face tothe silver screen and brought an unforgettable performance as anobsessed husband clearly hypnotized by the idea of Gold. JacquelineBissete is, well, how can I put this? - I would have liked to have beenthere with her on her holiday (gosh is she beautiful or what?). It wasRobert Shaw I believe, who brought the most to the film. He is witty,ignorant, a know-it-all and a man who isn't afraid of anything and thisis what people come to see adventure films for. I can't imagine anybodyelse nailing the role like he has. Pure brilliance from a great Britishactor.Now how does a film with an interesting, ORIGINAL plot, great cast(including a legend), calm and mesmerizing music, golden cinematographyand a great 'quotable' screenplay come to such underrated status isbeyond Bermuda's Triangle. The current rating that IMDb gives to thisfilm will never do it justice. I only hope for those who haven't seenit to overlook the score it has been given and take some time to sitback and escape to the fantastic world of "The Deep" - an experience Iwill be taking for many years to come. For me, a classic adventure ofpure escapism!
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