The Deep

    The Deep
    1977

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Robert ShawRomer Treece
    • Jacqueline BissetGail Berke
    • Nick NolteDavid Sanders
    • Louis Gossett Jr.Henri Cloche
    • Eli WallachAdam Coffin
    • Robert TessierKevin
    • Dick Anthony WilliamsSlake
    • Bob MinorWiley
    • Earl MaynardRonald
    • Teddy TuckerThe Harbor Master

    Recommandations

    • 50

      Variety

      Efficient but rather colorless...It’s possible that inside this slick piece of engineering there is a genuinely mordant satire of human greed struggling to get out, but it never quite gets to the surface.
    • 50

      Time Out

      It has sex objects for all tastes, instant fun, danger and boredom in unequal proportions, strobe-light climaxes, and Donna Summer in stereo. Furthermore, it does away with a storyline and dances on the spot for two hours, taking voodoo, buried treasure, violence and sea monsters in its stride.
    • 50

      Newsweek

      Robert Redford need not worry that his golden-boy throne is in danger of being usurped by the ballyhooed newcomer Nick Nolte, whose performance here never transcends the boundaries of a Salem commercial...And anyone who can't help looking beyond the action for plausibility had better stay home. You're thinking too much if you can't accept Nolte's explanation for risking life and limb underwater: "I feel things, so I do 'em." And if you persist in wondering why no policeman ever gets curious about all these strange goings-on in sleepy little Bermuda, then you're nothing but a spoilsport. [27 June 1977, p.60]
    • 50

      Chicago Reader

      Proof positive of just how mediocre 70s mediocrity could be—any quasicompetent Hollywood hack of the 40s could have gone to town with this story, but under Yates's direction it merely lurches along, from one predictable danger to another.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      The story, as well as Peter Yates's direction of it, is juvenile without being in any attractive way innarcent, but the underwater sequences are nice enough, alternately beautiful and chilling. The shore‐based melodrama is as badly staged as any I've seen since Don Schain's “The Abductors” (1972), which is to remember incompetence of stunning degree.
    • 40

      TV Guide Magazine

      The film will mostly be remembered for Bisset's wet T-shirt sequences.