Cinema: Deep in the Shallow Waters

THE DEEP

Directed by PETER YATES Screenplay by PETER BENCHLEY and TRACY KEENAN WYNN

The Deep isn't—very deep, that is.

It does have, however, a very pretty lady (Jacqueline Bisset) who can be observed scantily, or at least wetly and therefore clingingly, clad on every possible occasion. There is also some pretty underwater photography and some pretty fair suspense as good guys and bad guys thrash around on the ocean bottom looking for long-lost treasure of the Spanish Main, which is all mixed up with some more recently misplaced valuables —morphine that the wicked ones want to turn into heroin.

The story also has some...

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