BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF
(20th Century-Fox)
(CINEMASCOPE, plus submarine Technicolor photography, seemed to promise something really three-dimen-sional from Beneath the 12-Mile Reet, but for an ~underwater picture the script was far too short-winded. Too much time is spent on the surface, or gallivanting about the Florida Keys where the scenery is cluttered up with feuding Greek and, American sponge-fishermen. Oldsters Gilbert Roland and J. Carroll Naish head the opposing factions, youngsters Robert Wagner and Terry Moore seek to unite them. There are one or two short sequences showing the teeming life of the coral reefs, and a few longer ones palpably contrived in aquarium tanks, but as a film this is scarcely worth mentioning on the same page as Julius Caesar. The picture does achieve something, though. It gets close enough to an octopus to show the whites of its eyes, and no one (to my knowledge) has got that close before. —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 21
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152BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 21
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