The Deep Movie
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Is the treasure worth the terror? [Video Australia]
Is anything worth the terror of The Deep?
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.
| Robert Shaw | Romer Treece |
| Jacqueline Bisset | Gail Berke |
| Nick Nolte | David Sanders |
| Louis Gossett Jr. | Henri Cloche |
| Eli Wallach | Adam Coffin |
| Dick Anthony Williams | Slake |
| Earl Maynard | Ronald |
| Bob Minor | Wiley |
| Teddy Tucker | The Harbor Master |
| Robert Tessier | Kevin |
| Lee McClain | Johnson |
| Peter Benchley | Mate |
| Colin Shaw | Young Romer Treece |
| Peter Wallach | Young Adam Coffin |
| Peter Yates |
5.80 out of 10 (2956 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A good yarn
posted on 20 Apr 2009This is a pretty decent film and is certainly entertaining! Starring Nick Nolte, Jaqueline Bissett (oh yeah!), Robert Shaw and Louis Gossett, Jr., it is certainly well-acted. The story is decent, too, with a straight-ahead good vs evil plot. The underwater photography is very good, well-lighted and the underwater scenes well-choreographed. I'd have to call this film one that I'd plan to see again. I gave it a 7.
Beware the terror of "The Deep"
posted on 02 Apr 2009Or so said the tagline for the film obviously trying to capitalize on the success of "Jaws." "The Deep" was the follow up novel by "Jaws" author Peter Benchley. "The Deep" does not come close to the classic that "Jaws" is but standing on its own it is a watchable thriller.Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset play young lovers on vacation in the Bahamas. While scuba diving one day they come across some trinkets from a wreck and decide to have them appraised. Enter Robert Shaw playing an expert on these things who realizes they have stumbled across things they have no business knowing about. Shaw is playing almost the same type of guy that Quint was in "Jaws" only a little more personable. Lou Gossett plays the villain Cloche who has his own ideas about the treasures at the bottom of the sea."The Deep" has its moments but falls short of being great. The diving scenes are well photographed and the climatic battle between the good guys and the bad guys is exciting. There is also a fight between Gossett's and Shaw's top men involving chainsaws that is quite tense. But the film relies too much on the hatred on Bisset's character. There are scenes involving the bad guys and Bisset that border on cruel and it's a real distraction to the film. There is also a giant eel that poses a threat but comes off as more silly then thrilling.Still the movie is beautiful to look at and John Barry delivers another memorable score in a long list of them. The performances are fine and there is always the opening sequence involving Miss Bisset and a wet t shirt. Since she is always beautiful to look at anyway so it's an added bonus. Not a great film but not bad.
Stylish but sadly lacking any substance.
posted on 19 May 2008No doubting that The Deep was a film hoping to cash in on the monster success of Jaws two summers previously. Written by Jaws author Peter Benchley, The Deep on the page is never fully realised here on the screen, and sadly the film never lifts itself out of standard adventure territory. From the onset it looked to be heading in the right direction, a great first hour of genuine intrigue and tension keeps the viewer interested, we have ship wrecks, treasure, voodoo, gorgeous locale, a gruff Robert Shaw, and Jacqueline Bisset's wet t-shirt!, but the film drifts onto formulaic sand and peters out like a damp squib {or should that be squid?}. Lovely to look at {the underwater sequences are gorgeous}, and the acting is fine enough from all the leads, but a meandering drug plot only has one wishing a big shark would come and swallow the whole bloody picture and regurgitate it with a bit more oomph, 6/10.
The best opening sequence of all time
posted on 19 May 2008There's some action in The Deep. There's also a good cast. Nick Nolte is fine as the leading man, and Eli Wallach is great. But nothing compares to the opening sequence. Beautifully shot under the sea, it has the gorgeous Jacqueline Bisset in a white and wet t-shirt. It's an anthological scene. 'Nuff said.
"A beauty named Bisset!"
posted on 05 Mar 2008The film opens with Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset diving in the waters off Bermuda, exploring a sunken wreck... They soon find themselves drawn into a sea of jeopardy and intrigue involving a cargo of dangerous drugs, a fortune in Spanish treasure, ocean predators and ruthless drug smugglers accompanied by black magic voodoo...The adventure begins when they discover a strange ampule containing liquid, and a coral-encrusted Spanish medallion near the wreck of a World War II freighter..Henry Cloche (Lou Gossett), a local underworld figure with a hand of menace, offers to buy the ampule, then changes to unrefined tactics, for he knows that the small glass vessel holds the clue to a rumored cargo of morphine, convertible into a fortune...As Nolte and Bisset try to discover some light to the mystery, they unite in an alliance with Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), a strong ocean-expert recluse, who wants to punish Cloche whom he believes responsible for the death of his wife...Motivated by their own personal welfare, the trio dive depths, racing against the ticking time bomb of Cloche's vicious and relentless pressure in an effort to recover the Spanish treasure and to prevent the morphine from falling into his hand... The dramatic events culminate in a final explosion beneath the sea...If you love to see our quiet photogenic Bisset swimming around half-naked in a breathtaking wet-T-shirt, well, don't hesitate to join our innocent heroes in their efforts to wrest the treasure from the bottom of the ocean in their dangerous underwater battle in the deep...
Wet T-Shirts. God, you got to love them!
posted on 06 Nov 2007At first sight, "The Deep" has it all! A wonderful location, a treasure hunt, a hot chick and cool heroes with a nasty villain. How they managed to combine this elements into one of the most boring movies I ever saw is beyond me. "The Deep" is slow. Excruciatingly slow! The characters are empty shells. I could care less about them. The underwater scenes while beautifully shot are tedious after a while. Jacqueline Bisset has one good scene in a wet t-shirt but is then wasted for the rest of the film. Nick Nolte seems bored. Robert Shaw is basically the "guy from Jaws" once again. Louis Gosset Jr. is hardly in the movie but he tries his best. Eli Wallach is the nasty little bastard traitor we all love to hate, and as always he's great! They're the only saving grace of the movie.It's not that "The Deep" is insultingly bad! It's just that its so bland, dull and unemotional that I was pretty much indifferent to the whole thing. So if you're expecting a big, exciting adventure look elsewhere. The only thing about "The Deep" worth mentioning really is Jacqueline Bisset's hard nipples.
Jackie Bisset is the real underwater treasure in "The Deep"
posted on 12 Jul 2007***SPOILERS*** The first five minutes or so of the movie "the Deep" with the beautiful Jackie Bisset scuba diving underwater with her wet T-shirt is so hot and sizzling that it almost evaporated the waters of the Caribbean Sea.After seeing Miss. Bisset You completely lost interest in the sunken treasure of Spanish 18th century gold and the US navy supply ship "Goliath" that sank during WWII with it's cargo of some 100,000 valuable anvils of morphine worth millions of dollars on the city streets as illegal drugs. The movie "The Deep" in itself is a so/so story about a young couple David Sanders & Gail Berke, Nick Nolte & Jackie Bisset, on vacation in Bermuda. Davir & Gail together with the help of a local sea rummy and historian Romer Treece, Robert Shaw, try to recover a sunken treasure chest of Spanish gold coins and jewelry that sank under the waves during a hurricane off the coast of Florida in 1715. Some 230 years later a US navy supply ship named "Goliath" with a load of morphine anvils sank in the exact same spot on top of the French carrying Spanish treasure tobacco ship "Griffin" that secretly had the gold put on it by the Spanish governor of Cuba;to prevent the royal family as well as the Spanish government from knowing about it and keeping it all for himself.This all attracts a local Bermuda drug gang led by Henri Cloche and his top henchman Slake, Lou Gossett Jr. & Dick Anthony Williams, to try to get to the underwater site, they knew nothing about the Spanish treasure, and grab the morphine anvils. This all results later in the movie in a spectacular underwater battle between Treece and David with Colche and Slake. Slake drowns and Cloche become the lunch for a giant moray eel that was living inside the hull of the ship "Goliath" at the end of the movie.There's also Treece's helper Adam Coffin, Eli Wallach, who Treece save from the very ship "Goliath" after it sank in WWII who joins in with the drug gang in order to double cross Treece, a good friend is hard to find, and get a share of the drugs and money for himself. Treece was going to destroy the morphine anvils which is one of the reasons that Coffin put his lot in with the drug gang and sets up Treece's best friend Kevin, Robert Tessler, to get murdered by Slake later in the film. Coffin ends up in a coffin, or whatever pieces that they can find of him, later on when he tries to break into the lighthouse where he thought that Treece kept the morphine anvils, but had a trap set up by him with explosives for anyone who tries to break in. Both David and Gail as well as Treece go through the ringer in the movie as their kidnapped beaten and almost drowned as well as eaten by the giant moray eel and in the case of Gail she's also put through, by the drug thugs, some weird and bloody voodoo ritual that almost drives her mad. After dispatching both Cloche & Slake Treece detonates the explosives inside the "Goliath" and that knocks it off the coral reef that it was resting on and into the bottomless and dark Caribbean Sea out of the hands of Cloche's remaining drug gang members. At the end of the film Treece dives underwater, as the explosions were going off, and recovers a providence, a piece of jewelry that can prove that the gold and jewelry were genuine 18th sunken Spanish treasure, a golden and green emerald studded dragon necklace. A fairly good sunken treasure film but it was Jackie Bisset, wet T-shirt and all, that was the real treasure in the movie "The Deep" and as soon as you saw her swimming underwater with a pair of lungs that can keep you afloat, better the any life preserver. Nothing, nothing at all, could top that opening underwater sequence.
Scary and action packed
posted on 29 Dec 2006I loved this movie although a step down from Jaws . Peter Benchley still cranks out a good novel . Robert Shaw is still Quintish as he was in Jaws and still has major sex appeal . Jacqueline Bisset is sexy in the wet tshirt and Nick Nolte even looks rather sexy as well at his then young age . Lou Gosset os a scary villian and the underwater spookiness is exciting . Too bad the late Robert Shaw died at 51 in 1978 .
Always a good movie to watch in the summer around the hot tub on the patio<G>Enjoy
Like it like it like it
posted on 07 Aug 2006Saw this on HBO with my parents one vacation. I like this movie, it has a story which includes suspenses, horror, mystery and action. Not too many movies have this combination. Great acting by Shaw, his role is on par with Jaws. The under water filming is the best of any under water film. Then tension and fear with the under water scenes leave an impression on one's mind. A classic shown on TBS late night, I will tape the next time I see it on. They usually show the movie The Island afterwards, I never seen that one; I wonder if it is any good being the second feature. Rent it, tape it, or buy it! You will not be disappointed. 8/10
Action, Adventure, Mystery, Drama, and Treasure to boot
posted on 06 Apr 2006This movie has it all. I remember seeing this movie when it came out on TV.At the time I didn't know why I liked it so much, but now I know it was the ocean, the adventure, mystery, and intrigue. I just loved this movie. And I can't help it, I still do. I love the ocean scenes, and Nick Nolte's acting (not to mention Jacqueline's). I just ran across the DVD at Wally World for $5.50 and I had to buy it. I got a lot of enjoyment out of this movie and I have to give it a 10/10. I felt that all the acting was just fine including Robert Shaw's. I think that anyone who likes islands, adventure, scuba diving for gold, and beautiful woman will enjoy this movie.
Something to watch on a summer afternoon if you can't afford to get to Bermuda.
posted on 01 Mar 2006This movie is the filmic equivalent of a novel you buy at the airport bookshop, so why have I watched it a half-dozen times? Simply put, it's a vacation on DVD: The cinematography, especially the underwater scenes, is engrossing. The story is crisp and entertaining. Nolte, Bisset, and Shaw are all good in their parts, though they've all had better roles. Louis Gosset, Jr. is great as the villain, Eli Wallach is good but underused.There is an element of racism in 'The Deep'. The good guys are all white and the bad guys are all black (and drugs figure in as well). In today's more politically correct atmosphere the movie might not be made this way, but it is a fact that there are black-skinned criminals in Caribbean nations. The movie has to be taken with it's grain of salt.Oh, yeah, and there are Jaqueline Bisset's nipples poking through that wet t-shirt, you wouldn't want to miss that.
clunky water adventure from the writer of 'Jaws'
posted on 02 Feb 2006Treasure-hunting in the ocean 1970s-style. Young couple David (Nick Nolte) and Gail (the alluring Jacqueline Bisset) team up with ageing modern 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 found when taking a dive at the start of the movie.What they do find is so hot it sparks the interest of the local villain, Henri Cloche (Lou Gossett, silky and evil) and his various henchmen. 'The Deep' is mostly a lot of deep-sea diving (perhaps to show off Bisset's assets in her wet t-shirt) and a lot of silly talk about treasure. What story it has waves goodbye very early on, but it's still enjoyable.
Shark scene
posted on 26 Apr 2005I have watched this movie several times and it always sets me on the edge of my seat. There is however one scene that I really try to watch carefully. It is the shark attack scene. As they are surfacing during the feeding frenzy, Robert Shaw appears to have been bitten by a shark who in turn takes his arm off. The scenes show the arm falling away. I was curious if there was a stunt man who lost an arm in this scene or if it is a rewrite or blooper. Robert Shaw appears to lose his arm as they near the surface but climbs out of the water and into the boat with both arms intact. I was wondering if anyone else has ever noticed this. I really like this movie and enjoy watching it over and over. Robert Shaw is always great.
good
posted on 14 Apr 2005Beautiful film. Of course it was obvious to see an Italian film with a low vote. A film that shows very well interpreted in the squalor of the lives of the policemen. Kim Rossi Stuart, Amendola and Placido are really good at acting their parts. UInfatti carabiniere life is always surrounded by this unique squalor. Kim Rossi Stuart plays the part of the carabiniere naive and problems. The rawness in the film is very scandalous and ugly to watch but that is why it is close to reality. Vedilo, you will like it, without following the miserable rating of this site. Not understand why on this website must always utilizzaree a low voting against movies less spectacular than for Hollywood.Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese and give high ratings to bad movies like sin city. ON THIS SITE I PREJUDICES AND THE RULE OF TWO WEIGHTS AND TWO measured E 'AGAIN THIS! 10 votes
Linear Adventure in Wonderful Locations
posted on 29 Jan 2005In Bermudas, while diving for pleasure, David Sanders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Berke (Jacqueline Bisset) find a submerged vessel, and they bring a couple of objects withdrawn from the ship. They look for the advice of Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), an expert in treasures and old ships, and they realize that indeed there were two vessels in the same location: a French one, from the Eighteenth Century, with a treasure in jewels, and another one, from the war, with a load of morphine. David and Gail associate to Treece, trying to recover part of the underwater wealth. Meanwhile, the powerful Haitian drug dealer Henri Cloche (as Louis Gossett Jr.) menaces the group, trying to get the drugs. "The Deep" is a very linear adventure, without any plot point or surprises. The wonderful locations, the magnificent photography, the good cast and the amazing beauty of Jacqueline Bisset support this movie, which is recommended for killing time only. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "O Fundo do Mar" ("The Bottom of the Sea")
KKK propaganda? Or just a bad movie?
posted on 21 Dec 2004Whenever I watch this movie, I tend to wonder whether the Ku Klux Klan or White Aryan Resistance was involved in its making. The movie relates the story of a white man striving valiantly to defend the honor of his girlfriend, who is so remarkably incapable of thinking or acting on her own behalf that she is repeatedly defiled in various ways by the film's villains (who all happen to be black Haitians). A highlight of the film comes when the woman is repeatedly poked in the navel with a bloody chicken foot by a voodoo witch doctor. This clearly demonstrates the possible dangers of integrating other cultures into America. Other highlights include our protagonist narrowly escaping death at the mandibles of a moray eel puppet. The movie also contains extended periods of wordless, actionless, unclear footage of the sea floor at night. Although this could be some sort of profound artistic statement, the completely random nudity and black hole of a plot suggest that this film was intended for a mainstream audience. It fails both artistically and commercially, but was certainly fun to review.
And the award for best support goes to...Ms. Bissett's T-shirt!
posted on 09 Jul 2004OK, I need to vent for a second. There are times when reading other users comments on these films when I have to ask myself...did they actually watch the movie? Or did someone tell them about it? Because, all too often, I find comments like "There is also a fight between Gossett's and Shaw's top men involving chainsaws that is quite tense. " Again, did they watch the film? Or perhaps this was written by the most mechanically dis-inclinded human on earth, who can't tell an outboard 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, and a solid performance from the eel. I enjoyed it, and it's a great popcorn film. No message, (well, unless you count 'Don't put your head in an eels mouth!'), just treasure, action, good guys, bad guys, and a pretty girl.
Profoundly Deep.
posted on 26 Jan 2004I kind of enjoy seeing this movie every few years, for a number of reasons. The first reason is Jacqueline Bisset, She is stunning, all sun tan, big blue eyes that look in slightly different direction, impressively bebosomed, nice legs -- and we are introduced to her while she's scuba diving at Bermuda with her boyfriend Nick Nolte. She wears only her soaking wet T-shirt and a teeny bikini bottom. Later we are treated to her being felt up and undressed by bad guy Louis Gosset, Jr., and his gang of black thugs. Still later, a bunch of hoodoo priests hold her down on a bed, cut open her nightie, and paint her belly button with a severed chicken foot dipped in fresh blood. The thrills never end.The second reason is the colorful and evocative location photography. Bermuda looks terribly appealing here. The palms, the brushy cliffs, the finely grained sand of the beaches, the salt-encrusted cottages, the eternal sunshine, the soaking T-shirts. After they find a bit of treasure and a bit of morphine in the rotting iron hulk of a sunken warship, Nolte and Bisset consult the local know-it-all and sociometric hub, Robert Shaw for advice. He lives in a cozy two-story white lighthouse atop a hill. The lovely couple also rent a pair of the motor scooters that are ubiquitous on Bermuda and are forced off the road in an arousing chase. The underwater photography is strikingly convincing, though much of it was shot in a tank. The Caribbean has never been so aquamarine. It's like reading Shakespeare's song from "The Tempest" -- "Full fathom five thy father lies" -- only on mescaline.I guess the third is my admiration for the writer, Peter Benchley. This was his follow-up to the blockbusting "Jaws" a year earlier. Benchley takes these vacations, you see, to Martha's Vineyard or, as here, Bermuda or, as later, elsewhere around the Caribbean, learns a little bit about some features of the local culture, builds a commercial story around it, and then gets to deduct all his vacations from his income taxes. (Research.) There must have been a fourth reason too, but I'm getting a little foggy. Maybe it's the bends! Oh, no. I know what it was -- the story. It's -- well, it's FAST. And violently expectable. There are three or four dives to the old shipwreck in the movie and there's not a one of them that doesn't involve multiple hazards. On the very first, mainly recreational dive, Jacqueline Bisset, who can be identified because she's the one wearing the soaking wet T-shirt, is poking her stick around in a hole in the rocks and the stick is grabbed by some unseen varmit that yanks her repeatedly against the hole, leaving her positively breathless although not at all breastless.I mean it. You just KNOW that in the course of these dives a crate of ammunition is going to be shaken loose by a quivering of the feckless wreck and dumped down on Nolte, trapping him in a compartment below. You know this just as you know that sharks will appear at some point and do something that endangers the lives of the divers. For bonus points, a vicious moray eel appears suddenly, its many-toothed mouth wide enough to encompass a human head (which it does). There will be spear guns too, and they will be used in the course of an underwater fight in which dark gurgling figures tumble slowly around one another while grappling -- and simultaneously a fuze sputters nearer to the dynamite planted beneath them. And knives, naturally. Oh, and an exploding fireball above that lighthouse, and another under the hulk.Then there are scenes in which we find out about treasure, establishing provenance (meaning authenticating the treasure), and things like that. Very educational.Should you watch it? Why not? We all need a vacation of the mind.
Robert Shaw and Lou Gossett Jr.
posted on 10 Sep 2003This film didn't quite make the splash that "Jaws" did two years earlier but remains a fine picture with enough tense moments and stunning underwater photography to keep interest piqued. The stars, Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset, a vacationing twosome, find more than treasure and pieces of eight in a wreck off the Bermuda shore and soon have the island thugs around to pay them a visit. Seems as though a cache of morphine could be profitable in the drug market, which a Haitian dealer desires to exploit. The latter uses intimidation and voodoo to get his point across to the tourists, who later get help from a seaman and treasure expert to keep the villains at bay. Bisset is nice to look at in her wet t-shirts and capri pants but it is Robert Shaw and Lou Gossett who supply the key moments of drama in the film and are more effective than Nolte or Bisset. The picture does drift off course in spots but the always excellent Shaw, crusty and argumentative, and the polished and urbane Gossett, oozing evil from every pore, stay on a collision course that results in an exciting undersea climax. The film never received its due as an adventure worthy of critical acclaim.
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Never mind the T shirt- treasure Shaw the master !!
posted on 09 Aug 2009"The Deep" presents as a veritable Smorgasbord of delightful scenery, strong casting and underwater excitement; in reality the feast is not quite as satisfying as it should be, probably due to the seriously silly plot development.. The leads are fine, though; a youthful, pre-jaded looking Nick Nolte combining 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 the sheer charisma, in a fairly unflattering role, of the late great Robert Shaw, surely one of Britain's most gifted screen performers.