What movie is this? 70's movie?!
Question: Two kids girl and boy carve their names on a sea turtle. They grow up and get married. Then a man comes along when they are older and goes to rob them and plans to kill them. While out on the boat before the man can kill them the same sea turtle that the kids carved grabs a rope that is rapped around the would be killers feet and drag him into the ocean. Time frame of the movie is 70's.
Answers: Two kids girl and boy carve their names on a sea turtle. They grow up and get married. Then a man comes along when they are older and goes to rob them and plans to kill them. While out on the boat before the man can kill them the same sea turtle that the kids carved grabs a rope that is rapped around the would be killers feet and drag him into the ocean. Time frame of the movie is 70's.
The Bermuda Depths (1978 TV movie)
IMDB synopsis:
Traumatized, orphaned college dropout Magnus Dens (Leigh McCloskey) returns to Bermuda to find the cause of his father's mysterious death years before. At the Bermuda Biological Station, he finds Eric (Carl Weathers) and Dr. Paulis (Burl Ives), friends and colleagues of his late father, and joins them on a quest for gigantic sea creatures. He also meets Jennie Haniver (Connie Sellecca), a mysterious young woman. Paulis' housekeeper, an island local, warns Magnus that Jennie is dangerous because the beautiful but vain young woman made a pact with the Devil centuries before. She is said to live forever young deep in the waters of the Devil's Triangle (aka Bermuda Triangle). Nobody heeds the folklore, and the researchers trap the giant sea turtle, setting the stage for a deadly confrontation with both minions of the Devil.
I've watched this film many times, including the first time it aired on television. I had the luck to videotape it, especially fortunate since it's almost impossible to find. Most people who saw this in the Seventies seem to be haunted by it. Most remember the children carving the turtle's shell, and many recall the glowing green eyes, the gargantuan turtle and the man caught in the ropes. By the way, the man in the ropes isn't a killer, and the boy and girl didn't marry when they grew up. The little girl was lost at sea, the tragedy of Magnus' boyhood. I'll try to find more of a summary, if you would like to read the story.
Click on this link, which will take you to a plot summary at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bermuda...
They have a lengthy retelling that will reacquaint you with the film. There is a large forum at the film's IMDB site in which many people have exchanged their persistent memories of "The Bermuda Depths", which definitely qualifies as an obscure cult classic.
From Wikipedia:
THE LORE OF "THE BERMUDA DEPTHS":
This movie was initially shown as an ABC "Movie of the Week" a few years before the cable and video rentals era. Thus, it was a one-shot type of situation as far as being seen~~and a whole generation of young children watched this film and remembered it from that one showing!
As the Internet grew, this movie was often the subject of many message boards and searches. Individuals (mostly Gen Xers) were desperately trying to remember the details of the movie and find out how to see it again or buy a copy. There was a VHS rental copy available in video rental stories, but that was hard to find. A few people who had a copy made a VHS to DVD transfer that was of sketchy quality, but for many who had not seen it since the late '70s, it was a prize!
It seems to have affected a mass of young children, people who were aged 7-14 in 1978 in some kind of hypnotic, "mass dream" way. So many people recall their surreal and dream-like memory of the movie. It has been suggested that this was the effect of the Vivaldi score, the ocean scenes, or the haunting subject matter of the film.
There is an online petition for the producers to re-release this on DVD, but as of this writing, no further information is known as to its release.
NOTE: That doesn't explain why those of us who were in our 20s also were fascinated by this film. I wonder if it would have had the same effect if it had been released as a feature film. I really think it would have captured an even bigger audience, even if it became the same rarely aired movie. I was in my mid-20s, so I never forgot the film, mainly because I'm a fan of Leigh McCloskey and "local boy" Burl Ives. It truly is a haunting film for many of us. I especially remember the melancholy, beautiful song "Jennie".
OMG! On impulse, I typed in "The Bermuda Depths" on YouTube, and they have nine videos of it! Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj_7CQ2V0...
Once there, you should be able to access the rest.
Remember the movie but don't remember the name.
actually i could'nt understand dis thing till now.!
sounds worse than those stupid marykate and ashley films