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The History of Diving In the Movies.

For the past four issues of DIVER Magazine, readers have been shown pictures and asked to identify the dive movie from which they were taken. Well, we have been easing everyone into the spirit of the quiz with easily identified movies and ridiculously simple clues. This month we take off the dive gloves and ask you to identify a very old and obscure movie. Pictured below Stefani Powers and Cliff Robertson return to their dive boat in this 1965 Columbia Pictures release. Name the movie, and see if you can spot some of the continuity slip-ups that the director missed!

Answer

Lana Turner, Stefanie Powers, Cliff Robertson and Hugh O'Brien starred in the 1965 release, LOVE HAS MANY FACES. Not much of the movie was spent underwater. A wealthy playgirl (Turner) fears that she is losing her husband (Robertson) to a younger woman (Powers) while vacation in Acapulco. At best it has been described by critics as "Peyton Place comes to Mexico", at worst, "Unwatchable"!

Dive gaffs in the picture include: improper use of dive mask, no snorkel, weight belts are fastened underneath the tank straps, improper boat boarding technique and Cliff's parrot fish looks like it came from a Taxidermist and not the sea (can't see any spear marks on the beast!)