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...Since the end of World War II, the number of spearfishing addicts in the U.S. alone has grown to almost 1,000,000. The sport has spread, from the Mediterranean, where it started, as far south as Latin America and the coral shoals of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Alone, in pairs, or as members of spearfishing clubs (there are close to 100 in the U.S. today), skin divers take goggle-eyed aim at everything with fins. Last year a three-man team of Florida Association champions met a Pacific Coast team for the national championship. The Pacific team...
Terry Moore was chosen "the worst ingenue of 1953." She also received the year" in "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef...
With the usual pompous introduction praising the great, new medium CinemaScope, Twentieth Century-Fox plunges Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. It seems like the longest dive in motion picture history, and when everyone including the fish come up for air several hours later, there is little doubt that the CinemaScope millennium has not quite arrived...
...meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty of the sea, but the reef, lying in wait to grab the unwary diver, "never forgets...
...with feverish emotion, as though the only way to express great feeling is with a shout or a groan. The octopus alone manages to preserve his dignity, and he gets stabbed in the last reel. But despite the success of Wagner's sponge-fishing expedition, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is at best a meagre catch for the audience...