The Deep
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Short description
Vacationing in Bermuda, Gail Berke and David Sanders spend their days diving among the reefs until they come across the remains of a wreck. Inside it they find old jewellery and quantities of morphine in glass ampoules, a discovery that draws the attention of a local crime figure, Henri Cloche, who wants the drugs for himself. The couple turn for help to Romer Treece, a seasoned underwater expert who knows the surrounding waters, and the three are soon caught between a hunt for a Spanish treasure ship and the violence of Cloche's men.
The film was directed by Peter Yates, the sixth of the thirteen features he made, arriving between Mother, Jugs & Speed and Breaking Away. Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel, shares screenplay credit with Tracy Keenan Wynn, and Peter Guber produced. Robert Shaw plays Treece, with Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte as the couple, Louis Gossett Jr. as Cloche, and Eli Wallach and Robert Tessier in supporting parts.
Made for about 9 million dollars, the film took roughly 47 million worldwide, a strong return at the box office. Audiences rate it modestly: 6.3 out of 10 on IMDb from around 15,000 votes and 6.1 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller sample. A critics' score of 4.8 out of 10 from 26 reviews sits below those audience figures.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the beginning of the film, Gale, played by Jacqueline Bisset, is underwater and encounters a huge moray eel inside a sunken ship. During the filming of this scene, stuntwoman Jackie Kilbride dislocated her shoulder. Inside the hull of the sunken ship was a scuba diver who was instructed to pull on the glass she was holding in her hand. He pulled with all his might. The scene was filmed with multiple cameras and completed in one take.
- The sunken ship shown in the film is the merchant vessel Rhone, which went down in 1867 near the Virgin Islands. 125 crew members perished in the shipwreck, out of a total of 135, and the Rhone itself broke in half. The film shows the bow of the ship, which lies at a depth of approximately 22 meters.
- Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw (1927-1978), and director Peter Yates (1929-2011) all had to learn to scuba dive before filming began.
- Filming the shark feast required 720 dives and a total of 1,080 hours of underwater camera work. The scene was filmed on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It was claimed that this was the only place on the planet where such a scene could even be filmed.
- Initially, director Peter Yates did not believe Nick Nolte was suitable for the lead role. Nolte himself was not particularly eager to star in the film. Columbia Pictures also shared the opinion that someone else was needed for the lead role. Only producer Peter Guber insisted on Nick Nolte.
- At the time of filming and release, the project utilized the world's largest underwater filming stage. With the official consent of the local government, a pit measuring 10 by 36.5 meters was excavated on the island and filled with seawater, which was changed daily. A shark, a moray eel, and 300 various fish were placed in the water-filled pit.
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