Sorry to say it, but no amount of word care or nurturing could have saved this one from disappearing into the B-grade wilderness. Reagan himself called it a “might have been” in his first autobiography, complaining that the studio behind the movie (Columbia) “was more in love with the budget than the script”. Official Ronald Reagan biographer Edmund Morris, via a fictional alter ego, described this as “a turkey so many feathered it practically squawked off the screen”. This bang of an opening – arguably the best in all of Cameron’s oeuvre – sets in motion one of the great adventure movies of the late 1980s. The AbyssĪ fatal accident involving a US nuclear submarine and a previously-unseen underwater alien life form almost triggers armageddon. According to information gleaned from the web, the swimmer is 9. 1941ĭirector Spielberg starts the film with a jokey homage to his 1975 blockbuster Jaws when a naked blonde woman swimming off the Californian coast ( Denise Chesire, who played Susan Backlinie’s double in Jaws) finds herself being lifted from the water by the periscope of a marauding Japanese submarine.Īlthough she ends up getting away after the vessel submerges, Slim Pickens is not so lucky later on in the movie when he is kidnapped by the crew – a situation which results in some not-so-hilarious onboard hijinx involving himself, sub commander Toshiro Mifune and uptight German observer Christopher Lee. In this top 10 list, Mark Fraser takes a look at his favourite films where submarines play a central role. Torpedoes, periscopes, sweaty claustrophobia, rigid command procedures, heated confrontations that may lead to nuclear catastrophe and radars that emit sonar blips – a submarine movie has them all.
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