Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

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Florida | Reef

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  • Genre(s): Adventure, Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Robert D. Webb
  • Cast(s): Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Boone See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 42min
  • Music: Bernard Herrmann
  • Award(s): Oscar 1954 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story, Nimona
  • Story:
    Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.
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STORY

Story
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.

AWARDS

Nominations
Oscar Award

Best Cinematography Color | 1954

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Filmed in Tarpon Springs, FL. As of 2019 is it still the home of the natural sponge industry in the US, and has the highest percentage of Greek-Americans of any city in the country.

For many years it was widely believed that the failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright had resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market were either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) 16mm pan/scan television copies of the film purchased on the underground market. The legal status of the film was eventually resolved by 20th Century-Fox, and the movie was rescued from public domain so that a quality DVD could be released through Fox Cinema Archives. Fans are now able to enjoy the movie with stereo sound and a quality picture--complete with the "lost" scene in which Gilbert Roland stuffs a cigar into Peter Graves' mouth after beating him in a fistfight.

Robert Wagner was nearly drowned during filming at Tarpon Springs, FL, when he was kicked in the abdomen by another swimmer. He sank to the bottom and had to be rescued by a crew member.

Third film to be shot in CinemaScope, following The Robe (1953) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).

Underwater sequences were filmed with a French specialty camera named the Aquaflex.

Popular Dialogues

"Tony Petrakis: [to Gwyneth Rhys] Hey, you want to know what my real name is? Adonis. My mother named me after a Greek god. I'm a beautiful young man."