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.[1]
The film 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”.[2]
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.[3]
Ricou Browning directed the underwater sequences.[4]
See also
Notes
- ^ The Film Daily, Vol 130 1967
- ^ Weiler, A. H. (March 20, 1969). “Movie Review – – Daring Game’“. The New York Times. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ^ Moriaty, William (December 3–9, 2001). “The Paranormal in Florida. The Bermuda Triangle”. Nolan B. Canova’s Pop Culture Review. 2 (49). Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ^ “Ricou Browning – Actor, Film Producer, Director, Writer “The Gill Man”“. International Legends of Diving. Archived from the original on February 18, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
External links
- Daring Game at IMDb