Daring Game

Daring Game
Original film poster
Directed by	László Benedek
Written by	Art Arthur Andy White
Produced by	Gene Levitt Ivan Tors
Starring	Lloyd Bridges Nico Minardos Michael Ansara Joan Blackman Brock Peters Shepperd Strudwick
Cinematography	Edmund Gibson
Edited by	Jack Woelz
Music by	George Bruns
Production company	Ivan Tors Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	March 19, 1968 (1968-03-19)(New York City, New York) April 1968 (1968-04)(United States)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Daring Game is a 1968 action drama film, starring Lloyd Bridges and Nico Minardos, filmed at the Ivan Tors studio in Miami and in the Bahamas. The working title was The Unkillables. ^[1]

The films features a team of adventurers and martial artists who are hired to rescue a captured scientist. The scientist is held prisoner by a dictator.

Plot

Survival Devices, Inc., is an organization that employs a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator.

The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo". ^[2]

Cast

• Lloyd Bridges as Vic Powers
• Joan Blackman as Kathryn Carlyle
• Nico Minardos as Ricardo Balboa
• Michael Ansara as President Delgado
• Shepperd Strudwick as Dr. Carlyle
• Brock Peters as Jonah
• Perry Lopez as Reuben

Production notes

A Chase YC-122 Avitruc hired by the producers crashed en route from Fort Lauderdale to Bimini. ^[3]

Ricou Browning directed the underwater sequences. ^[4]

See also

• List of American films of 1968

Notes

1. The Film Daily, Vol 130 1967
2. Weiler, A. H. (March 20, 1969). "Movie Review - - Daring Game'". The New York Times . Retrieved January 2, 2018.
3. Moriaty, William (December 3–9, 2001). "The Paranormal in Florida. The Bermuda Triangle". Nolan B. Canova's Pop Culture Review. 2 (49). Retrieved January 2, 2018.
4. "Ricou Browning - Actor, Film Producer, Director, Writer "The Gill Man"". International Legends of Diving. Archived from the original on February 18, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2018.

External links

• Daring Game at IMDb