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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

An American adventure directed by Robert D. Webb, starring Robert Wagner.
Competing families of sponge divers quarrel over territory while a young man from one side falls in love with a young woman from the other.
Romeo and Juliet has already been done, but with sponge divers? The plot was obviously lifted from Shakespeare and the characters were a little lame. The style was almost unique and not quite good enough, though there were some underwater scenes that looked cool. The sound was absolutely wretched. I'm rating this poor for lack of originality. The only thing that saved it from bad was underwater cameras.