Heiners Filmseiten – Deep Waters (en)

Deep Waters

Francaise title: L’orphelin de la mer
Spain title: Aguas profundas
Greek title: Δαίμονας των θαλασσών
Russian title: Глубокие воды
Original title: Deep Waters

Alternative titles:
Daimonas ton thalasson / Sombras en el mar / Huérfano del mar

Youth drama – USA
Production year: 1948
Movie length: 85 minutes

Director: Henry King
Writer: Richard Murphy, Ruth Moore
Cinematograph: Joseph LaShelle
Music: Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman

Movie description:

A Maine lobster fisherman, trained as an architect, prefers to be a fisherman over the objections of his fiancée. The latter, a welfare worker for the state, finds a home for Donny, a 12-year-old orphan who loves the sea. He and the fisherman become friends but the fiancée, fearful of the dangers of sea life, forces the fisherman to restrict the boy from his boat. Denied the life he loves, the boy, in retribution, steals a camera and is sent to reform school. The couple marries and succeeds in getting a judge to grant a petition allowing them to adopt the boy.

In this drama, filmed on location in Maine, the life of a young lobster fisherman is forever changed by an orphan boy. It was the fisherman’s girlfriend that got him involved with the troubled lad who had been caught stealing while in a foster home. The fisherman was to provide a good role-model for the young man. With the help of one of his partners the fisherman succeeds.

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