Of course Bond’s mission requires him to take along a beautiful Bondgirl (Carole Bouquet), so together they dive in a mini-sub, swim through the sunken wreck in wet suits, evade bombs, and are dragged through the water as shark bait by a sadistic villain. This Cold War-era James Bond thriller stars Roger Moore as Agent 007, who is tasked to find a missing British ship that is fitted with a weapons-encryption device that the British Navy doesn’t want to fall into the hands of the enemy Russians. For Your Eyes Only (1981) John Glen directed this twelfth installment in the James Bond series. The underwater element involves British and Soviet submarines who are racing each other to reach safety in Antarctica. A subplot involves 855 men and women stationed in Antarctica who are isolated from the ravages of the virus because it cannot survive at temperatures under ten degrees Celsius. Released in Japan as Fukkatsu no hi (Day of Resurrection), the main theme of the film is that microbiologists have accidentally unleashed a pandemic upon the planet that comes to be known as the “Italian Flu,” and Cold War superpowers Russia and the USA are locked in a death struggle to develop the vaccine first and save their nation from obliteration. Virus (1980) A global pandemic kills everyone except those living in Antarctica. Robert Shaw returns as a lighthouse-keeper who is also an expert on buried treasure and deep-sea diving, and his character was based on real-life treasure-seeking diver Teddy Tucker, who served as a consultant on Peter Benchley’s novel. The Deep (1977) Jacqueline Bisset handles a puffer fish in The Deep.Ĭapitalizing on the massive success of Jaws-and based on another novel by Peter Benchley- The Deep pits two treasure-hunting deep-sea divers (Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte) who accidentally discover $2 million worth of morphine while swimming amid the remains of a World War II shipwreck against a local group of Bermuda criminals who want the booty for themselves. Shaw’s memorable monologue about a days-long attack of sharks on sailors treading water in the Pacific Ocean is based on the real-life story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II. The latter half of the film stars only four characters-the sheriff (Roy Scheider), a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss), a crusty old fisherman (Robert Shaw), and the monster shark that stalks them while they stalk it. Based on a Peter Benchley novel of the same name and also on a series of real-life shark attacks along the New Jersey coast in 1916, Jaws caused a mass panic not only in theaters, but in beaches around the world for quite some time after its release. A review for The Movie Scene says, “’The Silent Enemy’ is a blend of fact and fiction, a blend which is so cleverly put together that unless you know the truth it would be easy to believe much of what is presented to be the truth….It is entertaining with some wonderful action, drama and humour but also a real sense of atmosphere which makes it more than just another war movie from a bygone era.” Jaws (1975) “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”īefore Jaws came along, summertime was usually when Hollywood scheduled all the films they thought weren’t likely to be huge successes, but this tale of a giant great white shark terrorizing a small New England town basically invented the “summer blockbuster.” Over 67 million people flocked to theaters to see it in the summer of 1975, making it the first film in history to gross over $100 million at the box office. The Silent Enemy takes place in World War II and is based on the real-life story of Lionel “Buster” Crabb (Laurence Harvey), an ace diver in the British Navy who was tasked with subverting Italian Navy frogmen who were placing bombs on the hulls of English warships near the Rock of Gibraltar. The Silent Enemy (1958) Starring actor Lawrence Harvey was taken to the hospital for a shooting-related leg injury. But there’s a catch-the man who hired the divers has taken out a lucrative insurance policy, and the last thing he wants is for them to find the gold, and he will stop at nothing to make sure they don’t. The divers don’t find a ship, but they do find an entire sunken city-Port Royal, which was obliterated by a 1692 earthquake. Best Underwater Movies City Beneath the Sea (1953) Robert Ryan and Mala Powers star in this adventure drama film.īased on the book Port Royal: The Ghost City Beneath the Sea, the film’s plot involves two salvage divers in Jamaica who are hired to find The Lady Luck, a sunken ship that allegedly holds a treasure of one million dollars in gold. The following films feature sharks and sunken ships and watery darkness and the creeping terror that one may never see land alive again.
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