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Released
1977 · FILM

The Deep

A young couple discovers a dangerous shipwreck near Bermuda and must outwit ruthless treasure hunters to survive the deadly depths.

Is anything worth the terror of the Deep?

Directed by
Runtime
123 min
AdventureMysteryThriller

Synopsis

Two young vacationers find themselves caught in a perilous confrontation with treasure hunters after they discover an entrance to a deadly shipwreck located in the waters near Bermuda.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by David BerlatskyShot by Christopher ChallisScored by John BarryDesigned by Anthony Masters

Box Office

1977 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 11× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$100.0M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$100.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $47.3M 47% of worldwide · International: $52.7M (53%)

Opening weekend: $6.8M 14% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 731 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Tiefede
  • Abismoes
  • Les Grands Fondsfr
  • Abissiit

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