Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953 Widescreen Technicolor Adventure film)

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Directed by Robert D. Webb. The screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides was inspired by Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.[citation needed] The film was the third motion picture made in CinemaScope, coming after The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire.
Plot
Mike (Gilbert Roland) and Tony Petrakis (Robert Wagner) are Greek American father and son sponge-diving entrepreneurs who find themselves in competition with the Rhys family, Conch fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and murder to maintain their established fishing grounds off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Run-ins between the two clans lead to an exchange of threats and all-out brawls. Further complications ensue when Tony Petrakis meets Gwyneth Rhys (Terry Moore), and the two fall in love.

Cast
Robert Wagner as Tony Petrakis
Terry Moore as Gwyneth Rhys
Gilbert Roland as Mike Petrakis
J. Carrol Naish as Socrates Houlis
Richard Boone as Thomas Rhys
Angela Clarke as Mama Petrakis
Peter Graves as Arnold Dix
Jay Novello as Sinan
Jacques Aubuchon as Demetrios Sofotes
Gloria Gordon as Penny Petrakis
Harry Carey Jr. as Griff Rhys
Rev. Theophilus Karaphillis as Greek Priest at Epiphany
Production
The film originally was called Twelve Mile Reef and was announced in September 1952, with the leads to be played by Robert Wagner and Kathleen Crowley. By December, the female lead was going to be Debra Paget.

In February 1953, Fox announced the film would be shot in CinemaScope. That month, the first CinemaScope movie, The Robe, began filming.Beneath was the third film shot in that process, after How to Mary a Millionaire, and the first shot underwater.

Also that month, Terry Moore was given the female lead.[9]

Filming started 6 April 1953. The film was shot on location in Key West and Tarpon Springs, Florida.

There were rumors during filming that Moore and Wagner had a romance. In reality, Wagner secretly was seeing Barbara Stanwyck, and Moore was seeing Howard Hughes.

Wagner almost drowned during filming at Tarpon Springs when he accidentally was kicked in the stomach by another actor. He sunk to the bottom of the water and had to be rescued by a crew member.

Gloria Gordon, who had a small role, was signed to a seven-year contract.

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