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]

Daring Game
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Directed byLászló Benedek
Written byArt Arthur
Andy White
Produced byGene Levitt
Ivan Tors
StarringLloyd Bridges
Nico Minardos
Michael Ansara
Joan Blackman
Brock Peters
Shepperd Strudwick
CinematographyEdmund Gibson
Edited byJack Woelz
Music byGeorge Bruns
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Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • March 19, 1968 (1968-03-19) (New York City, New York)
  • April 1968 (1968-04) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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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

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Production notes

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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

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Notes

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  1. ^ The Film Daily, Vol 130 1967
  2. ^ Weiler, A. H. (March 20, 1969). "Movie Review - - Daring Game'". The New York Times. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
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