The second film shot in CinemaScope was a huge hit at the time but isn't that well remembered. I didn't mind it - there was some beautiful location photography, and an interesting location... the Florida Coast. Director Robert Webb does a competent job.
You can mock Robert Wagner in a black curly wig playing a Greek American, and you probably should, but he's actually a lot more animated and engaging than he was in many of his early movies. He teams well with Terry Moore, the perky ingenue who married Howard Hughes. They're fresh fasced kids.
The support cast has some weight - Gilbert Roland as Wagner's dad, Richard Boone (probably the best in the cast) as Wagner's dad, Peter Graves as the other man interested in Moore.
The film pulls its punches dramatically - Graves really should have been responsible for Roland's death instead of it being an accident, and he should have died at the end, and Wagner should have saved more people. The action scenes underwater are dull, as underwater action scenes tend to be. But I didn't mind this.
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