Down to the Sea 1936

4.5 / 10   2 vote(s)
Drama

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

Release Date 1936-05-30
Runtime 1h 9m
Directors Lewis D. Collins, Harry Neumann
Producer Nat Levine
Writers Wellyn Totman, Robert Lee Johnson, William A. Ullman Jr., Eustace L. Adams, Wellyn Totman

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.

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