The crew of a fishing boat discovers a deserted luxury yacht at sea with a dead body on board. They claim the yacht as salvage, not knowing that a drug smuggling ring has hidden $500,000 worth of heroin on the boat.
Chris Warfield
Marty
Sally Fraser
June
Dick Foote
Dick
Peter Forster
Monet
Chick Chandler
Kick
Wright King
Joe
Director, Original Story
Robert Gottschalk
Screenplay
Paul Strait
November 19, 2024
4
Apparently, this was made in under one week - and though that is to be commended, it does not make this film any better! It's got a sort of Alastair Maclean style premiss: a yacht is found abandoned, save for a corpse, by a fishing boat. They report it all and lay claim to salvage rights. Only snag is - the boat has a secret cargo that Peter Forster ("Monet") will stop at nothing to acquire, so when the authorities use them as bait to ensnare the real murderer/smuggler it all gets a bit risky. Sadly, though, there is absolutely no suspense whatsoever; the acting - admittedly, this is the ultimate B-cast - is mediocre at best, and the repetitive score all too often has to substitute for the weak and feeble dialogue. To be fair to the fisher-folks "Marty" (Chris Warfield) and "June" (Sally Fraser), they do look as if they enjoyed making this film, especially as the ending livens things up a bit, but that emotion does not really transcend to the viewer for the rest of this film. I reckon they did well to spin this story out for 75 minutes!