Daring Game
1968 film by László Benedek
Daring Game is a 1968 action 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.
The film features a team of adventurers and martial artists who are hired to rescue a captured scientist. The scientist is held prisoner by a dictator.
Plot
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".
Cast
Lloyd Bridges as Vic Powers
Joan Blackman as Kathryn Carlyle
Nico Minardos as Ricardo Balboa
Michael Ansara as President Delgado
Shepperd Strudwick as Dr. Carlyle
Brock Peters as Jonah
Perry Lopez as Reuben
Production notes
A Chase YC-122 Avitruc hired by the producers crashed en route from Fort Lauderdale to Bimini.
Ricou Browning directed the underwater sequences.
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