"sea side resort of Amity Island following a series of incidents and disappearances. Like the first film, the production of ""Jaws 2"" was troubled. The original director, John D. Hancock, proved to be unsuitable for an action film and was replaced by Szwarc. Scheider, who only reprised his role to end a contractual issue with Universal, was also unhappy during production and had several heated exchanges with Szwarc. ""Jaws 2"" was briefly the highest-grossing sequel in history until ""Rocky II"" was released in 1979. The film's tagline, ""Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water"
"them so much that they never wanted to go swimming again. Lonely Water Lonely Water (widely known as The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water) is a 1973 British Public Information short film made for the Central Office of Information (COI). The film aimed to warn children of the dangers of careless or foolhardy behaviour in the vicinity of water, and was shown regularly on TV for several years during breaks in children's programming. ""Lonely Water"" is widely recalled as one of the most memorable and chilling of PIFs. In a poll carried out by the BBC on the 60th"
"respectively. ""Lonely Water"" however was aimed squarely at the 7–12 age group and was altogether darker in tone, featuring an eerie faceless black-robed and cowled figure and a memorably sinister voiceover by Donald Pleasence, whose echoing final words ""I'll be back-back-back...!"" are often said semi-jokingly to have terrified and traumatised an entire generation of British schoolchildren. Writing for the British Film Institute, Katy McGahan says ""Lonely Water"" is ""eerily redolent of Nicolas Roeg's ""Don't Look Now"""" and ""plays like a distilled horror film, deploying the menacing tone and special effects normally the preserve of X-rated cinema shockers."" The camera pans"
"a job"". ""TV Guide"" awarded the film 1 out of 4 stars, noting: ""Unfortunately, the film never rises to the level of its advertising."" Blood Beach Blood Beach is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Jeffrey Bloom, and starring David Huffman, John Saxon and Burt Young. The premise, conceived by Steven Nalevansky, involved a creature lurking beneath the sand of Santa Monica Beach that attacks locals and vacationers. The film's tagline was: ""Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... you can't get to it!"". In the opening scene, a woman named"
"Blood Beach Blood Beach is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Jeffrey Bloom, and starring David Huffman, John Saxon and Burt Young. The premise, conceived by Steven Nalevansky, involved a creature lurking beneath the sand of Santa Monica Beach that attacks locals and vacationers. The film's tagline was: ""Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... you can't get to it!"". In the opening scene, a woman named Ruth is walking her dog on Los Angeles, California's Venice Beach, and is suddenly pulled under the sand of the deserted beach by an"
"Lonely Water Lonely Water (widely known as The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water) is a 1973 British Public Information short film made for the Central Office of Information (COI). The film aimed to warn children of the dangers of careless or foolhardy behaviour in the vicinity of water, and was shown regularly on TV for several years during breaks in children's programming. ""Lonely Water"" is widely recalled as one of the most memorable and chilling of PIFs. In a poll carried out by the BBC on the 60th anniversary of the COI in 2006, ""Lonely Water"" was chosen as"
"who continually covered her eyes, prompting him to tell her that it was ""only a movie"". Other origins have been suggested, however, as it had been used twice before: first for H.G. Lewis's 1964 splatter film ""Color Me Blood Red"" and then for William Castle's ""Strait-Jacket"" the following year. The tagline was so successful that many other exploitation films later used it, sometimes with their own spin. The film's title was also imitated, as in the case of ""Last House on Dead End Street"". Newspaper advertisements featured lengthy statements issued by the film's producers defending it against claims that it"
"film apparently rekindled Bogart's early love of boats. On his return to California he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout, which he kept until his death. The role of cantankerous skipper Charlie Allnutt won Bogart his only Academy Award in three nominations, for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1951. Bogart considered his performance to be the best of his film career. He had vowed to friends that if he won, his speech would break the convention of thanking everyone in sight. He advised Claire Trevor, when she had been nominated for ""Key Largo"", to ""just say you did"
"was only ever applied to , and . During a following scene, Formby is required to retrieve the hat of a lady, which he had inadvertently knocked over the ship's side. In his attempt to return the hat, Formby falls into the water and people on board the ship throw life buoys to him with """"SS Manxman"""" clearly visible. As this scene was shot in a studio, the conclusion must be that the life buoys were made specifically for the scene, and are merely theatrical props. TSS Manxman (1904) TSS ""Manxman was a turbine steamer launched in 1904 for the"
"For Screening Purposes Only For Screening Purposes Only is the debut album by UK dance-punk trio Test Icicles. After being released in 2005, the album was critically praised for being unique and compelling in an increasingly homogenous indie music scene. Following the group's split in February 2006, the album remains Test Icicles' only LP. The name of the album is derived from the 1999 film ""Thicker Than Water"". In the movie the phrase """"For screening purposes only"""" appears on screen whenever any violence occurs in the film. Band member Rory Atwell has also stated that the first song on the"
"the tail on Yasbeck, and then lift her into the water. Yasbeck received instructions when swimming to only use the tail, and never to use her arms, keeping them at her sides. Yasbeck would spend an hour at a time underwater, frequently taking breaths from the oxygen tanks of nearby divers. The tail was heavy for the actress to wear. The film was almost entirely recast from the 1984 original, with Dody Goodman (Mrs. Stimler) as the only returning cast member from the first film. ""Splash, Too"" was released on home video (VHS tape) in the United Kingdom and Australia"
"of Williams diving into Times Square with a large sign that said ""Come on in. The water's fine!"" Response for the film was ""glowing,"" as Williams wrote in her autobiography. A 1944 review from the New York Times scoffed at the title, but also wrote ""Miss Williams' talents as a swimmer—not to mention her other attributes—make any title the studio wants to put on it okay by us. When she eels through the crystal blue water in a rosy-red bathing suit or splashes in limpid magnificence in the gaudy water carnival which John Murray Anderson has brought to pass, she's"
"Dangerous When Wet Dangerous When Wet (1953) is a Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film starring Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, and Jack Carson, directed by Charles Walters, and featuring an animated swimming sequence starring Williams with the cat-and-mouse duo, Tom and Jerry. Katie Higgins (Williams) is the wholesome daughter of a dairy farmer. The entire family (Pa, Ma, Suzie, Katie, and Junior) start the day with a brisk song and morning swim. One day, Katie meets travelling salesman Windy Weebe (Carson) who is instantly smitten. Weebe sells an elixir that purports to turn the user into a peppy, fit-as-a-fiddle specimen, and upon"
"and the women knock themselves out. They decide to return to their ship that is still in port at the dockyard. But they do not make it in time and they fall into the water. ""You Were Never Uglier"" was remade in 1952 as ""Hooked And Rooked"" with Margie Liszt and Maxine Gates playing the roles of the fiancées. You Were Never Uglier You Were Never Uglier was a June 2, 1944 comedy short subject motion picture produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Andy Clyde, Emmett Lynn, and Esther Howard. Andy and Emmett are two sailors who finally return home"
"Open Water (film) Open Water is a 2003 American survival horror thriller film. The story concerns an American couple who go scuba diving while on vacation in the Caribbean, only to find themselves stranded miles from shore in shark-infested waters when the crew of their boat accidentally leaves them behind. The film is claimed to be loosely based on the true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went out with a scuba diving group, Outer Edge Dive Company, on the Great Barrier Reef, and were accidentally left behind because the dive-boat crew failed to take an accurate"
"content not appropriate for the studio's flagship Walt Disney Pictures banner. ""Splash"" had received a PG-rating for including some profanity and brief nudity. In 1964, eight-year-old Allen Bauer (David Kreps) is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. While taking a sight-seeing tour on a small boat, he sees something below the ocean surface that fascinates him, and jumps into the water even though he cannot swim. Underwater, he encounters a mermaid girl (Shayla Mackarvich) and inexplicably finds himself able to breathe under water. However, Allen is pulled back to the surface, and the two are separated. Since no one"
"you into."" The films ""Thicker than Water"" and ""The Fixer-Uppers"" use the phrase ""Well, here's another nice kettle of fish you pickled me in!"" In ""Saps at Sea"" the phrase becomes ""Well, here's another nice bucket of suds you've gotten me into!"" Another regular catchphrase, cried out by Ollie in moments of distress or frustration, as Stan stands helplessly by, is ""Why don't you do something to ""help"" me?"" Another, not-as-often used catchphrase of Ollie's, particularly after Stan has accidentally given a verbal idea to an adversary of theirs to torment them even more is, ""Why don't you keep your"
"You're in the Navy Now You're in the Navy Now is a Hollywood film released in 1951 by Twentieth Century Fox about the United States Navy in the first months of World War II. Its initial release was titled USS Teakettle. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film is a comedy starring Gary Cooper as a new officer wanting duty at sea but who is instead assigned to an experimental project without much hope of success. Filmed in black-and-white aboard ""PC-1168"", an active Navy patrol craft, ""You're in the Navy Now"" featured the film debuts of Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Lee"
"Recreation (film) Recreation is a short comedy film written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It was released on 13 August 1914. Seated in a park, Charlie gives his expert attention to the picture of a pretty girl on the cover of the Police Gazette. Since he doesn't have a girl of his own, Charlie becomes despondent and prepares to drown himself in the park's lake. He quickly changes his mind when an attractive girl approaches. However, she has a sailor boyfriend. Charlie and the sailor begin to fight. Shortly thereafter two policemen become involved in what has become a terrific"
"July 17, 2007, Turner Entertainment released ""Bathing Beauty"" on DVD as part of the Esther Williams Spotlight Collection, Volume 1. The 5 disc set contained digitally remastered versions of several of Williams' films including ""Easy to Wed"" (1946), ""On an Island with You"" (1948), ""Neptune's Daughter"" (1949) and ""Dangerous When Wet"" (1953) Several moments from the film became famous, one such scene in which swimmers dive past one another into the pool and water stunts involving Williams, including her being received as a queen emerging from the water, her high swan dive and her being surrounded by several other swimmers"
"lost film. No copies are known to exist. Rough Waters Rough Waters is a 1930 all-talking adventure drama film that directed by John Daumery and starring Rin Tin Tin. The film was adapted by James A. Starr from a story by Lillie Hayward, and was the last Rin Tin Tin film produced by Warner Bros. The film begins with a parked car with drawn curtains inside of which three gangsters (played by Walter Miller, Richard Alexander and Skeets Noyes) and silently waiting for their prey. When a large closed vehicle approaches the car with gangsters it crashes and the gangsters"
"Rough Waters Rough Waters is a 1930 all-talking adventure drama film that directed by John Daumery and starring Rin Tin Tin. The film was adapted by James A. Starr from a story by Lillie Hayward, and was the last Rin Tin Tin film produced by Warner Bros. The film begins with a parked car with drawn curtains inside of which three gangsters (played by Walter Miller, Richard Alexander and Skeets Noyes) and silently waiting for their prey. When a large closed vehicle approaches the car with gangsters it crashes and the gangsters quickly rush to the vehicle, kill the chauffeur"
"bowler hats drop on them, and as they turn toward the camera, acquire a likeness of Laurel and Hardy, and they swim into the Hotel. Another fish steps into some large shoes, and impersonates a Greta Garbo character and she says, ""I want to be alone"", a line in the 1932 classic Garbo movie ""Grand Hotel"". Another fish swallows a pair of lamps giving her a large hourglass figure similar to that of Mae West, complete with jewels and parasol, and utters, ""come up and see me sometime"" as she struts into the Hollywood Legion Stadium to watch a boxing"
"a stunt scene of a biker crashing into a pond was taken from American International's 1966 comedy ""The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini"".. Laughlin ran out of money during post production, but showed the film to American International Pictures who bought out the original investors and gave Laughlin $300,000 to finish it. The film was commercially successful, and resulted in Laughlin being able to raise the funds to make its sequel, ""Billy Jack"". In 1974, after the sequel proved financially successful, American International Pictures re-released ""Born Losers"" with the taglines ""The film that introduced Billy Jack"" and ""Back By Popular"
"Lifeboat (film) Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead with William Bendix. Also in the cast are Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson and John Hodiak. Additional roles in the boat were from Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, and Canada Lee. It is set entirely on a lifeboat launched from a sinking passenger vessel following a World War II naval attack. The film is the first in Hitchcock's ""limited-setting"" films, the others being ""Rope"" (1948), ""Dial M for Murder"" (1954), and ""Rear Window"" (1954). It is"
"film ""Saving Private Ryan"", and appears on the cover of Stanley Lombardo's 1997 English translation of the ""Iliad"" as a symbol of the universality of war. The picture was also rendered on the 2017 ""Call of Duty"" game ""."" Into the Jaws of Death Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death is a photograph taken on June 6, 1944, by Robert F. Sargent, a chief photographer's mate in the United States Coast Guard. It depicts U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division soldiers disembarking from an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned at"
"Don't Go Near the Water (film) Don't Go Near the Water is a 1957 comedy film about a U.S. Navy public relations unit stationed on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. It is an adaptation of the 1956 novel of the same name by William Brinkley. Glenn Ford and Gia Scala star. This is the first of several service comedies that Ford appeared in after the huge success of ""Teahouse of the August Moon"". The movie was very successful and further solidified Ford's reputation as an adept comedic actor. Lieutenant (j.g.) Max Siegel (Glenn Ford) and"
"deserted island and must learn how to survive together in a sometimes dangerous environment. The Sea Gypsies (1978 film) The Sea Gypsies, also known as Shipwreck, is a 1978 family movie directed by Stewart Raffill and starring Robert Logan and Mikki Jamison. The film's tagline is ""It began as a dream... and became an adventure of a lifetime"". Travis and his two daughters, Courtney and Samantha, set off on a dangerous trip around the world on a sailboat. Along for the trip is Kelly, a journalist who has been assigned to cover the voyage. Also, Jesse, a stowaway, is found"
"the species to aquariums may locally present a low risk to the red-bellied piranha. Many myths surround this species. The 1978 film ""Piranha"" by Joe Dante shows these fish in a similar light to ""Jaws"". ""Piranha"" was followed by a sequel, """", in 1982, and two remakes, one in 1995, and one in 2010. Films such as these, and stories of large schools of red-bellies attacking humans, fuel their exaggerated and erroneous reputation as being one of the most ferocious freshwater fish. In reality, they are generally timid scavengers, fulfilling a role similar to vultures on land. In the 2010"
"the ship in the hope of remaining with Korchinsky. Being the only person to see her fall, Korchinsky ignores the risk of arrest and dives into the water to save her and they are both rescued by the police boat. Korchinsky admits his guilt after Gillie hugs him, and Graham commends him for his bravery in saving her. The film was popular at the box office. Tiger Bay (1959 film) Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film based on the short story ""Rodolphe et le Revolver"" by Noel Calef. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson, produced by"
"going to be picked up again. The Walt Disney Company at the time was having success with releasing direct-to-video sequels, such as ""The Return of Jafar"" and ""Aladdin and the King of Thieves"". They wanted to test how live-action sequels would do, so they picked this one to be their first. Nell Scovell and Joel Hodgson were recruited to try to reduce Kirkpatrick's script due to the budget restraint. In Kirkpatrick's script, the group of shrunken parents would originally fall into an aquarium. The scene was cut from the script, and then revised to the bubble machine one. One scene"
"United States as part of """"The Bowery Boys, Volume Two"""" on April 9, 2013. Let's Go Navy! Let's Go Navy! is a 1951 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on July 29, 1951 by Monogram Pictures and is the twenty-third film in the series. A local charity has raised sixteen hundred dollars and entrusted the boys with it. They are then robbed of the cash by two men dressed as sailors. Believing them to be real sailors, and in order to catch them, they enlist in the Navy under fake names. They spend a year at"
"Movies wrote, ""A host of good actors, including Robert Shaw and Barry Foster, add meat to the minor roles in this tough action film."" Sea Fury (film) Sea Fury is a 1958 British action film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen (in his final film), Luciana Paluzzi and Grégoire Aslan. The film's plot involves a violent rivalry that develops between two tug-boat operators in Spain. Some of the exteriors were shot in the Costa Brava. Sea Fury was instrumental in the comeback of director Cy Endfield, who'd been forced to flee Hollywood and seek work in"