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      Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is a 1953 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Robert Wagner, Terry Moore and Gilbert Roland. The screenplay was by A.I. Bezzerides. The film was the third motion picture made in CinemaScope, coming after The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire. The supporting cast features J. Carrol Naish, Richard Boone, Peter Graves, Jay Novello, Harry Carey Jr. and Jacques Aubuchon.


      Plot


      Mike (Gilbert Roland) and Tony Petrakis (Robert Wagner) are Greek American father and son sponge-diving entrepreneurs who find themselves in competition with the Rhys family, Conch fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and murder to maintain their established fishing grounds off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Run-ins between the two clans lead to an exchange of threats and all-out brawls. Further complications ensue when Tony Petrakis meets Gwyneth Rhys (Terry Moore), and the two fall in love.


      Cast


      Robert Wagner as Tony Petrakis
      Terry Moore as Gwyneth Rhys
      Gilbert Roland as Mike Petrakis
      J. Carrol Naish as Socrates Houlis
      Richard Boone as Thomas Rhys
      Angela Clarke as Mama Petrakis
      Peter Graves as Arnold Dix
      Jay Novello as Sinan
      Jacques Aubuchon as Demetrios Sofotes
      Gloria Gordon as Penny Petrakis
      Harry Carey Jr. as Griff Rhys
      Rev. Theophilus Karaphillis as Greek Priest at Epiphany


      Production


      The film originally was called Twelve Mile Reef and was announced in September 1952, with the leads to be played by Robert Wagner and Kathleen Crowley. By December, the female lead was going to be Debra Paget.
      In February 1953, Fox announced the film would be shot in CinemaScope. That month, the first CinemaScope movie, The Robe, began filming. Beneath the 12 Mile Reef was the third film shot in that process, after How to Marry a Millionaire, and the first shot underwater.
      Also that month, Terry Moore was given the female lead.
      Filming started 6 April 1953. The film was shot on location in Key West and Tarpon Springs, Florida.
      There were rumors during filming that Moore and Wagner had a romance. In reality, Wagner was secretly seeing Barbara Stanwyck, and Moore was seeing Howard Hughes.
      Wagner almost drowned during filming at Tarpon Springs when he was accidentally kicked in the stomach by another actor. He sank to the bottom of the water and had to be rescued by a crew member.
      Gloria Gordon, who had a small role, was signed to a seven-year contract.


      Critical reception


      Bosley Crowther of The New York Times observed "Another and further extension of the range of CinemaScope ... is handsomely manifested in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef ... But that, when you come right down to it, is just about the only novelty provided by this third employment of the anamorphic lens. For the scenes shot above the surface, while large and imposing, are routine, and the drama developed in the screen play is hackneyed and banal. And, unfortunately, most of the picture takes place above, not below, the reef ... There is nothing at all fascinating or edifying here."
      Variety wrote "[T]he squeeze-lensing gives punch in the display of underwater wonders, the seascapes and the brilliant, beautiful sunrises and sunsets of the Florida Gulf coast. In handling the young cast, Robert D. Webb's direction is less effective, particularly in the case of Robert Wagner and Terry Moore. Both are likable, so the shallowness of their performances is no serious handicap to the entertainment."


      Copyright


      This film is in the public domain, as the copyright was not renewed.


      Awards and nominations


      Edward Cronjager was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and Robert D. Webb was nominated for the Grand Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.


      See also


      Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934) – 1934 American film by Armand Schaefer
      Down to the Sea (1936) – 1936 American drama film by Lewis D. Collins
      Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1948 film) – 1948 American adventure film directed by Irving AllenPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets


      References




      External links



      Beneath the 12-Mile Reef at IMDb
      Beneath the 12-Mile Reef at the TCM Movie Database
      Beneath the 12-Mile Reef at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
      Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (widescreen) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
      Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (fullscreen) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

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