Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20507 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-06-06
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 116 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
An obvious attempt to cash in on the success of Jaws, this 1977 thriller was also based on a best-seller by Peter Benchley, and it features a memorable performance by Robert Shaw (the doomed shark 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 will 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, Amazon.com

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround English\Dolby Digital Mono French German Italian Spanish
Dolby Digital Surround
Dolby Digital Mono
Filmographies
Arabic\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish

Synopsis
This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while diving one day they discover the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter and unearth a gold coin as well as a mysterious glass ampule. Excited, they believe their discovery could be a long lost treasure, but they soon learn that their most valuable discovery is actually an ampule of morphine, one of thousands left behind on the medical supply ship. This discovery leads them into the hands of Henry Cloche (Louis Gossett Jr.), an extremely dangerous and powerful Haitian drug dealer who will stop at nothing to unearth the dangerous treasure. With the help of Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), an old treasure hunter, David and Gail soon realize that they have made a much more important discovery than the morphine and set out to keep their actual treasure a secret. Director Peter Yates's suspenseful film features death-defying dives and exquisite underwater photography. Posters of Bissett underwater in a T-shirt adorned many a dorm wall in the late 1970s.

Customer Reviews

Excellent.........................
It is many years since I first saw this film and it was not until I watched it again last night that I realised just how good it is.
There is plenty of underwater action with a first class cast including Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte and Eli Wallach.
It is fast moving with loads of nail-biting tension. Based on the book by Peter Benchley, which I read years ago, it is an exciting film which keeps the attention.
Definitely worth watching!

Fantastic sea adventure
Well first thing to say and a bit sexist is that Jacqueline Bisset looks sexy in a wet t shirt in the sea and out. Robert Shaw is virtually the same kind of role he had in Jaws and meets a rather nasty death. I have seen this film loads of times in the 80's and it still feels cool with the underwater shots. The action is brilliant especially moray eels and elevators and nasty fishing hooks. There have been a number of attempts at copying this but nothing stands up to it. If you liked Jaws then get this too.

Top notch sea set adventure
Contrived or not, this is a darn good yarn, and there is much more time spent at sea here than there was in Jaws. I read somewhere that this film had the record for the largest percentage of its footage being shot under water. Don't know if it still holds but it all contributes to a rollicking sea adventure. If ever you get itchy for a day at the sea, but can't for some reason get out there, reach over to your dvd rack and slot this one in. It will give you your fill of the big blue stuff (without the sun). You can almost smell the seaside, watching this film. There's plenty of plot and good action sequences. You can even see what a good actor Mr. Shaw was, as he clearly adopts a different persona than the one he played as Quint, in Jaws. It would have been so easy just to pull on that big sea dog exterior and just get on with it, but not with an actor of this man's integrity. It somehow makes the film more credible, and yes it IS underrated ridiculously. Okay it cashes in on the success of Jaws, who could blame it? It is its own movie entirely, and although I can't say there's no sharks in it, they are certainly not in it for long, and are, I think, either harmless reef or mako sharks. And they're not made of rubber.