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An obvious attempt to cash in on the success of Jaws, this 1977 thriller was also based on a bestseller by Peter Benchley, and it features a memorable performance by Robert Shaw (the doomed sha...( read more  read more... )rk hunter in Jaws) in one of the last roles of his career. Looking very tanned and healthy, Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset play a young couple enjoying a tropical vacation who discover a glass ampoule while scuba diving off the coast of Bermuda. It takes a seasoned treasure hunter (Shaw) to identify the ampoule as part of a valuable shipment of World War II morphine lost at sea, coincidentally, atop the even greater treasure of a sunken Spanish galleon. Thus begins a race for drugs and treasure pitting Nolte, Bisset, and Shaw against a ruthless drug lord (Louis Gossett Jr.) who'll do anything--even resort to Haitian voodoo--to get what he wants. It's all rather contrived and exploitative (after all, the movie's best known for Bisset's wet T-shirt scuba-dive), but as escapist entertainment goes it's got some exciting highlights including a moray eel that attacks on cue and... well, uh, Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T-shirt. --Jeff Shannon

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PG, 123 min.

Directed by: Peter Yates

Release Date: June 17, 1977

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DVD Release Date: July 4, 2000

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  • wellmeetagain
    October 25, 2007
    wellmeetagain
    overlooked, but well made and well acted thriller. can't believe the low ratings.
  • DrLappos
    October 11, 2007
    DrLappos
    I really enjoyed this film. I love the sea.
  • stormyweather980
    August 15, 2009
    stormyweather980
    "The Deep" was made a few years before I was born, but I had always heard it was a good movie. I finally watched it and I liked it....a lot. From what I heard, I was just expecting it to be full of great underwater photography, but it has an amazing plot tagged alongside it. Nick...( read more) Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett are a couple that are on vacation in Bermuda. They go deep sea diving one day and find a small bottle of morphine from a ship that sank in the 1800's. They go to a man who's a known treasure hunter (Robert Shaw) and he tells them what they found. But they are also pestered by Louis Gossett, who is a serious collector that will do anything to get his hands on one of those tiny bottles of morphine. Robert Shaw teams up with Nolte and Bisset after they decide there might be more bottles of the treasured substance and possibly some treasure deep in the sunken ship. All the while, they must stay away from Gosset and his fearsome gang.
    There are also more exciting sequences such as an encounter with a deadly eel and of course, the wet t-shirt swim at the beginning.

    "The Deep" is one of the most exciting and suspenseful adventure movies ever made. Yes, it does have great underwater scenery (mostly at the beginning) and the background music goes perfect with the movie. Although the wet t-shirt by Jacqueline Bisset might be what's best known about the movie, this is actually a great movie. It's one of my favorites.

    As for the DVD, it's not big at all on extras. You do get to select from subtitles in several different languages, there's a scene selection, and best of all, both the widescreen and full screen versions are included in this DVD's one disc. Unfortunately, the sound quality isn't very good. While your current volume setting might be too loud or just right on one of your DVDs, it will probably be too low for "The Deep". The picture quality is good enough though. If you're a fan of the movie, "The Deep", I do recommend adding the DVD to your growing collection. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. Yeah, the wet t-shirt by Bisset, very nice indeed. But I love the adventure, scenery, and suspense of this film even more. Very underrated movie and a favorite of mine.
  • luvafish582002
    July 22, 2009
    luvafish582002
    Saw it, don't remember...
  • kylejwright
    June 29, 2009
    kylejwright
    The Deep was very good, I actually liked it more than some of the Jaws movies, it had a good plot and was exciting the whole way through.
  • saltersheppard
    November 16, 2008
    saltersheppard
    Great little movie. Always like Nolte. Shaw is quite good inthis. Lots of fighting, blood and suspense.
  • grayavec
    November 8, 2008
    grayavec
    Decent movie. Combines wreck diving with illegal drug dealing. The dangers above ground seem worse than what's underwater. Main couple, Bisset and Nolte, are pretty B-quality, and though Shaw and Gosset Jr. play similar roles to ones they've done in the past, they come off bet...( read more)ter than the primary stars of the film.
  • LisaH511
    October 12, 2008
    LisaH511
    This gets 5 stars for Robert Shaw. You've got Jacqueline Bisset in a wet t-shirt for the guys, and Mr. Shaw for the women. I'd watch Robert Shaw just stand there. What a man.
  • wyatte53
    August 11, 2008
    wyatte53
    fools gold in a much more serious vein. nick nolte, jacky bisset(in a wet t-shirt) and robert shaw in this search for treasure that gets mixed up with drugs.
    been a long time since i saw it but really enjoyed it back in the ice age.
  • Ghw12158
    August 11, 2008
    Ghw12158
    still holds up better than say "Into the Blue"

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