Daring Game Explained

Daring Game
Director:László Benedek
Producer:Gene Levitt
Ivan Tors
Starring:Lloyd Bridges
Nico Minardos
Michael Ansara
Joan Blackman
Brock Peters
Shepperd Strudwick
Music:George Bruns
Cinematography:Edmund Gibson
Editing:Jack Woelz
Studio:Ivan Tors Productions
Distributor:Paramount Pictures
Runtime:100 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English

Daring Game is a 1968 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]

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

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 and References

  1. The Film Daily, Vol 130 1967
  2. News: The New York Times. Movie Review - - Daring Game'. Weiler. A. H.. A. H. Weiler. March 20, 1969. January 2, 2018.
  3. Nolan B. Canova's Pop Culture Review. The Paranormal in Florida. The Bermuda Triangle. Moriaty. William. 2. 49. December 3–9, 2001. January 2, 2018.
  4. Web site: Ricou Browning - Actor, Film Producer, Director, Writer "The Gill Man". International Legends of Diving. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218060858/http://www.internationallegendsofdiving.com/FeaturedLegends/Ricou_Browning_bio.htm. February 18, 2017. January 2, 2018.