The Deep

Peter Yates (director)
Peter Benchley (novel, screenwriter)
Keith Hamshere and David Doubilet (still photographers)
Tracy Keenan Wynn (screenwriter)
Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw (starring)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1977. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1977 UK release of the 1977 US film. Cropping annotations on 1 still.

Based on screenwriter Peter Benchley's 1976 novel, starring Jacqueline Bissett and Nick Nolte as a pair of young vacationers who get involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover how to get to a shipwreck in Bermuda waters. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound. The second of 2 films featuring Bissett in a Peter Yates film (the other being "Bullitt," 1968).

Shot on location in Australia, Bermuda, and the British Virgin Islands.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Lentz, p. 1022.


[Book #132961]