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directed by and starring Wayne Crawford and co-starring June Chadwick and Ted Le Plat. The film centers on Max Cash, an adventurer who goes hunting for treasure on a cursed shipwreck. It is one of many underwater-themed movies released around 1989, including '' The Abyss'', ''

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'', '' DeepStar Six'', '' Lords of the Deep'', and '' The Rift'' (''Endless Descent'').

Plot

Max Cash is a down-on-his luck fisherman and charter boat captain living in the

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when his life takes a turn when he meets Sarah Livingstone, a tourist who is seeking to find the treasure of accursed shipwreck, 'The El Diablo' which has been rumored to have sunk on an offshore reef near one of the many islands. Max and Sarah then team up to locate the wreck while dodging Ray Calhoun, a local crime boss as well as Adrian Barlow, a mysterious businessman who claims that the wreck is guarded by supernatural forces in form of a sea monster that no one claims to have ever seen and survived.

Cast

* Wayne Crawford as Max Cash * June Chadwick as Sarah Livingstone *Sheri Able as Tracy *Ted Le Plat as Adrian Barlow *Graham Clarke as Ray Calhoun *Liam Cundill as Ray Calhoun Junior *

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as Max Cash Senior * Brian O'Shaughnessy as Father Shannon * Peter Terry as Constable Chambers *Paul Siebert as Guido

Reception

''Creature Feature'' gave the movie two out of five stars.Stanley, J (2000) Creature Feature: #rd Edition

References

External links

* 1989 films 1980s adventure films 1989 horror films American adventure films American supernatural horror films Films about treasure hunting Underwater action films Films set in the Bahamas 1980s English-language films 1980s American films English-language horror films English-language adventure films {{1980s-US-film-stub