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

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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