There are a lot of fun moments in this "Sea Hunt" like action movie with its star, Lloyd Bridges, asked by old friend Irene Dailey to rescue her esteemed doctor husband Shepperd Strudwick and daughter Joan Blackman from the clutches of third world dictator Michael Ansara. Along with Brock Peters and Perry Lopez, they infiltrate the island by swimming towards it which results in a sequence that has nothing but the sound of underwater equipment making bubbles and the background score, encountering all sorts of dangers, both of the natural kind and of the human kind.
There are a couple of slow moving spots when there's absolutely no dialogue, just the sound of bubbles and jazz, but there's some good underwater photography and lots of intrigue. Bridges is basically playing his "Sea Hunt" character with a different name, is easy going and wisecracking, and great in a confrontation to join their mission.
Stage and soap actress Dailey has one of her few major film roles, ironically playing the wife of Strudwick's character since their "Another World" characters were in-laws, played by different actors when each of them were on the show. Attractive Blackman is a good heroine, and Ansara is a commanding dictator foiled by Bridges. Basically a passable little action adventure that what have been great drive-in movie entertainment in the late '60s.
There are a couple of slow moving spots when there's absolutely no dialogue, just the sound of bubbles and jazz, but there's some good underwater photography and lots of intrigue. Bridges is basically playing his "Sea Hunt" character with a different name, is easy going and wisecracking, and great in a confrontation to join their mission.
Stage and soap actress Dailey has one of her few major film roles, ironically playing the wife of Strudwick's character since their "Another World" characters were in-laws, played by different actors when each of them were on the show. Attractive Blackman is a good heroine, and Ansara is a commanding dictator foiled by Bridges. Basically a passable little action adventure that what have been great drive-in movie entertainment in the late '60s.
