Yes! The special effects cost more than the actual ship.
Yes! The movie has atrocious acting!
Yes! Some of the "special" effects are shoddy!
Yes! The movie has numerous historical inaccuracies
Yes! They took everything great out of a best-seller!
BUT!!!!
The scenes of the actual raising, accompanied by a great John Barry score comes off well. Also, Alec Guiness adds alot to this mess with his one scene, as a survivor (who SHOULD be well over 100, but historical innacuracies ARE this movies strong suit!)
The story concerns the race between the Americans and the Russians to obtain a rare mineral, to set up a "Star Wars" type defense system using the mineral, supposedly lost when the ship went down. The cast was head up by Richard Jordan, cast as Dirk(?!) Pitt, rugged adventurer. Jason Robards plays Admiral Sandecker, Pitts boss. David Selby is perpetually uptight scientist, Gene Seagram. Anne Archer is the one, lone female caught up in all this slosh as Dana Archibald, Seagrams girlfriend, who has the most laughable bits of dialogue: "Fishy on the hooky"??????
The movie came from the man who brought us the stinker "The Cassandra Crossing", Lord Lew Grade. After this movie took in less than half what it cost to make, and was universally panned, Lord Lew was basically out of business. |
