Daring Game
{{short description|1968 drama film by László Benedek}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Daring Game
| image = Dargame.jpg
| caption = Original film poster
| director = László Benedek
| producer = Gene Levitt
Ivan Tors
| writer = Art Arthur
Andy White
| narrator =
| starring = Lloyd Bridges
Nico Minardos
Michael Ansara
Joan Blackman
Brock Peters
Shepperd Strudwick
| music = George Bruns
| cinematography = Edmund Gibson
| editing = Jack Woelz
| studio = Ivan Tors Productions
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1968|3|19|New York City, New York|1968|4||United States}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
}}
Daring Game is a 1968 action drama film, starring Lloyd Bridges and Nico Minardos, filmed at the Ivan Tors studio in Miami and in the Bahamas. The working title was The Unkillables.The Film Daily, Vol 130 1967
The films features a team of adventurers and martial artists who are hired to rescue a captured scientist. The scientist is held prisoner by a dictator.
Plot
Survival Devices, Inc., is an organization that employs a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator.
The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".{{cite news|journal=The New York Times|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9800E1DD153AEE34BC4851DFB5668382679EDE|title=Movie Review - - Daring Game'|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|authorlink=A. H. Weiler|date=March 20, 1969|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}
Cast
- Lloyd Bridges as Vic Powers
- Joan Blackman as Kathryn Carlyle
- Nico Minardos as Ricardo Balboa
- Michael Ansara as President Delgado
- Shepperd Strudwick as Dr. Carlyle
- Brock Peters as Jonah
- Perry Lopez as Reuben
Production notes
A Chase YC-122 Avitruc hired by the producers crashed en route from Fort Lauderdale to Bimini.{{cite journal|journal=Nolan B. Canova's Pop Culture Review|url=http://www.crazedfanboy.com/nolansnewsstand/popculturereview89.html|last=Moriaty|first=William|title=The Paranormal in Florida. The Bermuda Triangle|volume=2|issue=49|date=December 3–9, 2001|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}
Ricou Browning directed the underwater sequences.{{cite web|url=http://www.internationallegendsofdiving.com/FeaturedLegends/Ricou_Browning_bio.htm|title=Ricou Browning - Actor, Film Producer, Director, Writer "The Gill Man"|publisher=International Legends of Diving|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218060858/http://www.internationallegendsofdiving.com/FeaturedLegends/Ricou_Browning_bio.htm|archive-date=February 18, 2017|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}
See also
Notes
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0062862|Daring Game}}
{{László Benedek}}
Category:1960s action drama films
Category:American action drama films
Category:Films scored by George Bruns
Category:Films set in the Caribbean
Category:Films shot in the Bahamas
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Underwater action films
Category:Films directed by László Benedek
Category:1960s English-language films
Category:English-language action drama films
Category:Films about dictators
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