The Deep

An unfinished feature film directed by Orson Welles and based on Charles Williams’s Dead Calm (1963), filmed between 1966 and 1969 off the Yugoslav coast. Starring Welles, Jeanne Moreau, and Laurence Harvey, the project follows a newlywed couple whose yacht voyage becomes a psychological thriller after encountering a drifting vessel. The film remains incomplete, with missing scenes, unfinished sound, and surviving only in workprint form.

Cast

Michael Bryant John Ingram Oja Kodar Rae Ingram Laurence Harvey Hughie Warriner Jeanne Moreau Ruth Warriner Orson Welles Russ Brewer

Rasim Hodzic

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