Deep Waters (1948)
You're Like the Sea...Beautiful and Cruel!
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
- Date of release
- 1948-07-22
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Henry King
Casting
- Dana Andrews — Hod Stillwell
- Jean Peters — Ann Freeman
- Cesar Romero — Joe Sanger
- Dean Stockwell — Donny Mitchell
- Anne Revere — Mary McKay
- Ed Begley — Josh Hovey
- Leona Powers — Mrs. Freeman
- Mae Marsh — Molly Thatcher
- Will Geer — Nick Driver
- Cliff Clark
- Bruno Wick
- Harry Tyler
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
Deep Waters is a 1948 American drama film directed by Henry King and starring Dana Andrews, Jean Peters and Cesar Romero. The film is based on the 1946 novel Spoonhandle written by Ruth Moore and was nominated for a 1949 Oscar for Best Special Effects, but lost to Portrait of Jennie.
Production
In December 1946, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to the novel Spoonhandle by Ruth Moore in order to produce a film adaption. Initially, Louis de Rochemont was assigned to produce and Mark Stevens was set to star.
Filming took place during late 1947, in the original Maine locations of the story.
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