The Deep
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Gail (Jecqueline Bisset) and David (Nick Nolte) are on vacation in Bermuda, when their trip turns into a dangerous adventure. THE DEEP is a movie full of treasure hunting, greed, and intrigue. Gail and David discover a sunken ship loaded w/ bottles of morphine while scuba-diving. They also find a mysterious medallion from 1714. The couple shows their find to a local treasure hunter (Robert Shaw) who eventually decides to help them. Unfortunately, their secret is found out by a powerful criminal (Louis Gosset) and his gang, who set out to persuade our heroes to include them in their persuit. The rest is a race to get to the treasure; complete w/ knives, chases, double-crosses, murder, voodoo rituals, a gigantic, killer-moray eel, explosives, and a legendary boat-house showdown between two muscle-men using an outboard motor as a weapon! As if this weren't enough, we also get the opening scene w/ Ms. Bisset swimming around in her magic T-shirt! Oh my goodness! Yep, this one's a keeper...
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Jackie Bisset is the real underwater treasure in "The Deep". 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.
Product Description
- Actors: Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach
- Directors: Peter Yates
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