| The Deep | |
|---|---|
 original movie poster |
|
| Directed by | Peter Yates |
| Produced by | Peter Guber |
| Written by | Peter Benchley Tracy Keenan Wynn |
| Starring | Robert Shaw Jacqueline Bisset Nick Nolte |
| Music by | John Barry |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Editing by | David Berlatsky |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | 1977 |
| Running time | 123 min. |
| Language | English |
| All Movie Guide profile | |
| IMDb profile | |
The Deep is a 1977 film directed by Peter Yates based on the novel by Peter Benchley. A pair of young vacationers become involved in a dangerous conflict with local drug dealing criminals when they discover a fortune in sunken World War Two-era morphine — and another fortune in 17th century Spanish treasure — in shipwrecks on the Bermuda reefs.
Main cast
- Robert Shaw – as Romer Treece
- Jacqueline Bisset – as Gail Berke
- Nick Nolte – as David Sanders
- Louis Gossett, Jr. – as Henri Cloche
- Eli Wallach – as Adam Coffin
- Dick Anthony Williams – as Slake
- Earl Maynard – as Ronald
- Bob Minor – as Wiley
- Teddy Tucker – as The Harbor Master
- Robert Tessier – as Kevin
- Lee McClain – as Johnson
