Angela Clarke, Chuck Woolery, Darby Hinton, David Ladd, Gilbert Roland ...( see more  see more... ) , J. Carrol Naish , Peter Graves , Richard Boone , Robert Wagner , Roosevelt Grier , Terry Moore

Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the...( read more  read more... ) dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.

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Directed by: Robert D. Webb, Virginia Stone

Release Date: December 2, 1953

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DVD Release Date: January 10, 2006

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  • December 14, 2008
    This one takes place down in Florida, near Key West, its about the sponge farmers, the Greeks vs the Conch's (Local Key Westerns) back in the day. A young Robert Wagner loses his girl to a Greek, she runs off and gets married, Dam Greeks. Anyway its a good one if you like the ole...( read more) shool movies. Its in my Collection will you add it to yours.
  • September 14, 2009
    Interesting to see Wagner as a young man. The performances were well done, good as the acting of the day required. The movie is based around a toiling sea farming business that environmentalist would have a breakdown watching: sea sponge extraction. The backdrop to the movie howe...( read more)ver could have been about almost any other industry and the conflict anf the story could still make sense. Wagner is lovely on the screen and brings a lot of energy. The story is a strong one but some things are left open to speculation and could have been tightened up with more time or a passing word here or there. I enjoyed this movie just to see Wagner youthful but turned out to learn omething about an industry I should have known much more about. This film could be remade and it would still have a grab to a new audience.
  • August 26, 2009
    never saw a movie about rival sponge divers.......
  • April 10, 2008
    This was a good movie

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