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| Title: AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 |
It takes exactly forty-minutes before the entire crew's aboard a relatively small submarine that's to drop sonar sensors to predict earthquakes in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA...
That being SEA HUNT star Lloyd Bridges, FLIPPER dad Brian Kelly, beautiful scientist Shirley Eaton, old oddball specialist Keenan Wynn, and just like he was on THE MAN FROM UNCLE has David McCallum as a Russian... with the motivation to make a terrific villain since he wants to score hefty salvage, and the fact that affable Marshall Thompson's pseudo-girlfriend Eaton used his be his own...
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| Brian Kelly and Lloyd Bridges in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
But the only antagonists are of the sea, particularly a giant eel (inspired by the 20,000 LEAGUES squid) in what's a surprisingly decent underwater thriller, despite lacking urgency built into the plot of getting all the sensors down...
The performances are all pretty good, despite seeming more befitting a television movie/pilot than a big screen spectacle, which AROUND THE SEA is a deliberately unashamed b-movie version of...
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| Shirley Eaton and Brian Kelly in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
Overall, Brian Kelly provides the best performance since he's the most scolding and intense, initially rescued in a suspenseful scene more taut than the climax (plus he frustratingly adores the girl)...
And the always stalwart Bridges is in charge because, well, he's Lloyd Bridges... tet he shares this fixing-a-problem underwater adventure pretty much equally throughout.
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| Shirley Eaton and Brian Kelly in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Brian Kelly and Lloyd Bridges in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Eel and Submarine in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Brian Kelly and Marshall Thompson with Keenan Wynn in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Brian Kelly and Marshall Thompson in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Brian Kelly and Marshall Thompson with Keenan Wynn in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Gary Merrill in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Brian Kelly and Gary Merrill in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Brian Kelly in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Lloyd Bridges and David McCallum in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Shirley Eaton in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Brian Kelly in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Shirley Eaton in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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Shirley Eaton in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA with Brian Kelly
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| David McCallum and Shirley Eaton in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| David McCallum and Shirley Eaton in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| David McCallum and Lloyd Bridges in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Shirley Eaton and Brian Kelly in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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| Keenan Wynn in AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA |
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