{"id":22817,"date":"2020-02-01T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T06:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2020-12-20T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T19:51:33","slug":"review-underwater-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2020\/02\/review-underwater-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Blu-ray Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Underwater<\/em><\/strong> is a Howard Hughes\u2019 produced movie that plods along with little suspense and very little in the way of any memorable characters, although at least the underwater photography was impressive, for what it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n

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Underwater!
\n<\/span>\u2014 Warner Archive Collection \u2014<\/span>
\n(1955)<\/span>
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Adventure, Drama<\/span>
\nWarner Archive | NR \u2013 99 min. \u2013 $21.99 | January 28, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 02\/01\/2020 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Directed by: <\/strong>John Sturges
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Hugh King and Robert B. Bailey (story), Walter Newman (screenplay)
\nCast: <\/strong>Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Lori Nelson, Richard Egan, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia<\/span><\/p>\n
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DISC INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Features: <\/strong>None
\nSlip Cover: <\/strong>No
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>No
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1<\/span><\/p>\n
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Audio: <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 1.0)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 2.00
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>29.06 GB
\nTotal Bitrate: <\/strong>38.96 Mbps
\nCodecs: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A, B, C<\/span><\/p>\n
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THE MOVIE \u2014 2.25\/5<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Plot Synopsis: <\/strong>Along with his partner, Dominic (GILBERT ROLAND), and his lovely wife, Theresa (JANE RUSSELL), intrepid treasure hunter Johnny Gray (RICHARD EGAN) embarks on a quest for sunken treasure in the Caribbean. Outfitted with advanced scuba gear, the team struggles to pinpoint the location of the rumored shipwreck of a centuries-old galleon loaded down with priceless antiques. When a group of money-hungry pirates takes a sudden interest in their expedition, the Grays find themselves in deep trouble.<\/p>\n

Quick Hit Review: Underwater<\/em><\/strong> is a 1955 treasure recovery adventure-drama from Howard Hughes \u2014 with a $2 million production budget ($19.08 million adjusted) \u2014 which was, putting it kindly, plods along with little suspense, shoddy pacing and no noteworthy performance, although the lovely Jane Russell of course was beautiful, but her acting talents, as they tended to be with Hughes\u2019 productions, was not fully utilized.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, I will say the underwater footage was half decent at least and\u2026 that\u2019s about it. There was some fine tropical photography here and there, but a good amount was clearly shot against a green screen. Can\u2019t say I was disappointed, but the premise sounded promising as I do tend to enjoy these sort of adventure films and also thought it would go into disaster mode with part of the sunken ship going over the edge, but as a whole, this was a lackluster production that was surprisingly pretty dull.<\/p>\n

Directed by John Sturges, who would go on to direct some classics like Gunfight at the O.K. Corral<\/em>, The Magnificent Seven<\/em> and The Great Escape<\/em>, tries his best with such a dull script and characters, but in the end I had a tough time sitting through this, even with Jane Russell in a film they proclaimed \u201cas you\u2019ve never seen her before\u201d. Yeah, okay. Skip this adventure turkey, just watch The Poseidon Adventure<\/em> again, hell 2005\u2019s Sahara<\/em> might be a better option\u2026<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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VIDEO \u2013 4.0\/5, AUDIO \u2013 3.75\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Warner Brothers releases Underwater<\/em><\/strong> onto Blu-ray, presented in its original 2.00 widescreen aspect ratio and has been given a new 1080p high-definition transfer. For the most part, this does look quite good in HD, detail is relatively sharp and colors are fairly bright, if not saturated perhaps having been colored with Technicolor? In any case, I\u2019m not sure exactly was restoration work was done, however the picture seems to be free of any obvious film damage.<\/p>\n

The disc comes with a serviceable if not basic DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track, which does output clear dialogue though, and this is due to the production, there was one line that clearly done via ADR. In any case, if I had any criticism, I did discern some minor hissing or a low pitch sound in a few scenes, but otherwise it was a fairly clean lossless track.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 2.0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Underwater<\/em><\/strong> is a Howard Hughes\u2019 produced movie that plods along with little suspense and very little in the way of any memorable characters, although at least the underwater photography was impressive, for what it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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