Word: lobsterman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep Waters (20th Century-Fox) is a very mild movie about a lobsterman (Dana Andrews) who loves the sea, a state social worker (Jean Peters) who hates and fears it, and an orphan (Dean Stockwell) in her charge who gets caught in their crossfire. The boy loves the sea as much as Dana does; Dana is glad to take him on as an apprentice and even wants to adopt him; Jean does everything she can to keep him out of the dreadful trade...
...dory like a steam engine," the youth reported. "I went right up out of the boat and I came down on his flat, slippery hump." The young lobsterman swore he dug his fingers into the whale's hide and rode him like a horse. "Then," he said, "the whale sounded. That was my chance, and I took it-I abandoned him to starboard and started swimming...