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Down to the Sea

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Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1936-05-30

Runtime: 69 mins

Director: Lewis D. Collins

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama

Original title: Down to the Sea

Production Companies: Republic Pictures

Production Countries: United States of America

Reviews

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Geronimo1967
A pretty routine seafaring yarn about a Greek sponging community where the younger divers want to operate a new form of freestyle diving as opposed to using the established heavy wetsuit practises to collect their wares. Simultaneously, there's a bit of a love triangle between rivals Russell Hardie ("John") & Ben Lyon ("Steve") for the attentions of Ann Rutherford ("Helen"). There is smidge of underwater photography, and some set-piece fisticuffs, but little else to commend this aside from it's brevity.
2022-06-19

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