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The Deep (1977)
, 2h4Directed by Peter Yates
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach, Robert Tessier
While scuba-diving near shipwrecks off Bermuda, vacationing couple David Sanders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Berke (Jacqueline Bisset) recover a number of artifacts, including an ampoule of amber-colored liquid and a medallion bearing the image of a woman and the letters "S.C.O.P.N." (meaning "Santa Clara, ora pro nobis" or "Saint Clara, pray for us") and a date, 1714. Sanders and Berke seek the advice of lighthouse-keeper and treasure-hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) on the origin of the medallion, who identifies the item as Spanish and takes an interest in the young couple. The ampoule is noticed by the man who had rented diving equipment to Sanders and Berke, which in turn attracts the attention of Henri Cloche (Louis Gossett, Jr.), a local drug kingpin for whom the shop owner works, who unsuccessfully tries to buy the ampoule and then begins to terrorize the couple with Haitian black magic. The ampoule contains medicinal morphine from the Goliath, a ship that sank during World War II with a cargo of munitions and medical supplies. The wreck of the Goliath is considered dangerous and is posted as off-limits to divers due to the danger of explosions. Treece concludes that a recent storm has exposed her cargo of morphine and unearthed a much older wreck containing Spanish treasure.
Sharks' Treasure (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Yaphet Kotto, Cornel Wilde, Cliff Osmond, David Canary, Carmen Argenziano, Dale Ishimoto
Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan (Wilde) and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure off the coast of Honduras.
The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1975)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Stephen Boyd, David Ladd, Chuck Woolery, Darby Hinton, Cheryl Ladd, Art Metrano
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The Neptune Factor (1973)
, 1h38Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films
Actors Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes, Chris Wiggins
Marine scientists prepare to leave their underwater Oceanlab after an extended stay performing oceanographic research. An underwater earthquake interrupts their plans. Dr. Andrews (Walter Pidgeon) enlists experimental sub captain Adrien Blake (Ben Gazzara) to survey the damage and rescue the oceanauts. He brings along Chief Diver "Mack" MacKay (Ernest Borgnine) and Dr. Leah Jansen (Yvette Mimieux), fiancée of one of the scientists. Blake finds the lab has been ripped from its moorings and has tumbled down an unexplored, deep ocean trench, presumably intact. With the lab's reserve air supply dwindling, the team descends into the unexplored trench and finds an incredible ecosystem populated with monstrously over-sized fish. After surviving encounters with unfriendly denizens, they find the lab partially intact, the surviving scientists breathing from scuba tanks, and fending off giant, hungry eels. All but one of the scientists are rescued, and the submarine returns to the surface.
Fear Is the Key (1972)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet, Ben Kingsley, Ray McAnally
John Talbot is talking on radio to a girl and another man who are flying a plane. He hears them being machine gunned to death by another plane.
Murphy's War (1971)
, 1h45Directed by Luis Armando Roche, Peter Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Harry Fielder
In the closing days of World War II, Irishman Murphy (Peter O'Toole) is the sole survivor of the crew of a merchant ship, Mount Kyle, which has been sunk by a German U-boat, which then machine-gunned the survivors in the water. Murphy makes it ashore (to a missionary settlement on the Orinoco in Venezuela) where he is treated by a pacifist Quaker doctor, Dr Hayden (Siân Phillips).
Latitude Zero (1969)
, 1h29Directed by Ishirō Honda
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films
Actors Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel, Patricia Medina
Three men (Dr. Ken Tashiro, Dr. Jules Masson, and Perry Lawton) are trapped in a bathysphere due to seismic activity. They are rescued by the crew of the supersubmarine Alpha, captained by Craig Mackenzie (Cotten), who they learn is over 200 years old (and that the Alpha was launched in the early 19th century). Mackenzie takes them to Latitude Zero to deal with the serious injuries of Dr Masson. While returning to Latitude Zero, they are attacked by a rival supersubmarine, the Black Shark, captained by Kuroi, who works for a rival of Mackenzie, Malic, who is also over 200 years old and has a base at Blood Rock.
Shark (1969)
, 1h32Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Films about sharks, Mise en scène d'un poisson
Actors Burt Reynolds, John Arthur Kennedy, Silvia Pinal, Barry Sullivan, Mini Anden
Reynolds plays Caine, a gunrunner who becomes stranded in a small port in the Red Sea. He meets a seductive woman who propositions him to dive into shark-infested waters off the coast for scientific research. However, when Caine realizes the woman and her partner are actually treasure hunters, the action starts to heat up both above and below the water.
Submarine X-1 (1968)
, 1h30Directed by William A. Graham
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors James Caan, Norman Bowler, Paul Young, Brian Grellis, George Pravda, William Dysart
The film begins with Commander Bolton and a few surviving crew members of his 50-man submarine Gauntlet swimming ashore after unsuccessfully attacking German battleship Lindendorf. After a review, Captain Bolton is cleared of any wrongdoing and placed in charge of a small group of experimental X class submarines. His mission is to quickly train crews to man the submarines and sink the Lindendorf while it is hidden away in a Norwegian fiord.
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
, 2h28Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan, Alf Kjellin
A satellite reenters the atmosphere and ejects a capsule which parachutes to the Arctic, coordinates 85N 21W (approx 320 miles WNW of Nord, Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean ice pack). During an ice storm, a figure soon approaches, guided by a homing beacon, while a second person secretly watches from nearby.
Daring Game (1968)
, 1h40Directed by László Benedek
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman, Shepperd Strudwick, Irene Dailey, Brock Peters
Survival Devices, Inc are an organisation that employ a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator.
The Last Adventure (1967)
, 1h52Directed by Robert Enrico, Bernard Queysanne
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Underwater action films, Buddy films
Actors Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani, Odile Poisson, Paul Crauchet
Three very likeable losers fail while they pursue individual goals. Roland Darbont (Lino Ventura) is an inventor who has designed his own engine. Manu Borelli (Alain Delon) on the other hand is a pilot who prepares a spectacular stunt. Both of them are running tests on Darbont's premises when they are joined by Laetitia Weiss (Joanna Shimkus), an artist who builds abstract statues from scrap metal. They nourish each other's hopes and learn to get along with each other.
Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
, 1h35Directed by John Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Pat Priest, Elsa Lanchester, Frank McHugh, Pat Harrington, Jr., Sandy Kenyon
Lieutenant Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley) is a former U.S. Navy frogman who divides his time between twin careers as a deep sea diver and nightclub singer. Ted discovers what he believes could be a fortune in Spanish gold aboard a sunken ship and sets out to rescue it with the help of go-go dancing yoga expert Jo Symington (Dodie Marshall) and friend Judd Whitman (Pat Harrington, Jr.). Gil Carey (Skip Ward), however, is also after the treasure and uses his girlfriend Dina Bishop (Pat Priest) to foil Ted's plans.
Assault on a Queen (1966)
, 1h46Directed by Richard Long, Robert D. Webb, Jack Donohue
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin, Reginald Denny
A World War II-era German submarine missing for 20 years is retrieved in the Bahamas by diver Mark Brittain, hired by the wealthy Rosa Lucchesi and her partner, Vic Rossiter, who have been searching for Spanish galleons.
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
, 1h40Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, John Arthur Kennedy, Arthur O'Connell
The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for a limited amount of time, depending on how small the item is miniaturized.