This week’s mystery movie was the 1948 Twentieth Century-Fox film Deep Waters, with Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere and Ed Begley.
Screenplay by Richard Murphy.
Based on the novel Spoonhandle by Ruth Moore.
Music by Cyril Mockridge.
Musical direction by Lionel Newman.
Orchestral arrangements by Maurice de Packh.
Photography by Joseph La Shelle.
Art direction by Lyle Wheeler and George Davis.
Set decoration by Thomas LIttle.
Edited by Barbara McLean.
Makeup by Ben Nye.
Photographic effects by Fred Sersen.
Sound by Bernard Freericks and Roger Heman.
Produced by Samuel G. Engel.
Directed by Henry King.
More information on Deep Waters is available from the AFI Catalog.
Deep Waters is available on DVD from Critics’ Choice Videos.
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I picked Deep Waters at random because it looked interesting and it has never aired on TCM. Plus there’s usually suave Cesar Romero working on a fishing boat, and young Will Geer. I’m going to guess that Bosley Crowther gave it at least a middling review.
Oh boy, did he not like it (July 23, 1948):
There is something outrageously silly about the sight of two Hollywood stars, one a stalwart young fellow and the other a stalwart young girl, going through love’s standard torments, complete with a nose-in-air quarrel, over the question of whether the fellow should continue to be a lobsterman. Somehow, the inclinations of two such characters to face this issue squarely seem filled with unutterable distate. And that’s why the film, Deep Waters, which came to the Globe yesterday, is a basically silly picture, even though it was meant seriously.
I run Bosley mostly because he so frequently gets it wrong and he certainly is here. One sentence makes no sense: “Somehow, the inclinations of two such characters to face this issue squarely seem filled with unutterable distate (The exact spelling in the New York Times. I tried changing this to “distaste,” but that doesn’t unlock whatever Bosley was trying to say).
And it’s also why I like to run the Harrison’s Reports reviews, which strike me as far more in tune with audiences and the industry. To me, Deep Waters is a pleasant, small film, a rather standard tale, shot on location in Maine instead of the back lot or some part of California as a stand-in.
For Monday, we have a mystery fellow. He is skeptical of such goings-on.
Update: This is Raymond Greenleaf.
For Tuesday, we have a mystery fellow.
Update: This is Will Geer, pre-blacklist
Brain Trust roll call: Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery guest) and Jenny M. (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery guest).
For “Hm Wednesday,” we have a mysterious lad.
Update: This is Dean Stockwell.
Brain Trust roll call: Howard Mandelbaum (Tuesday’s mysterious fellow), Greg (mystery movie and both mystery guests), Mary Mallory (mystery movie and both mystery guests), Robert Morrissey (mystery movie and both mystery guests), Benito (Tuesday’s mystery fellow), Mike Hawks (mystery movie and both mystery guests) and Roget-L.A. (mystery movie and both mystery guests).
For “Aha Thursday,” we have a mystery woman.
Update: This is Mae Marsh.
We also have this mysterious fellow.
Update: This is Ed Begley.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Wednesday’s mysterious lad), Greg (Wednesday’s mysterious lad), Sylvia E. (mystery movie and all mystery guests), L.C. (mystery movie and mystery cast), Jenny M. (Wednesday’s mysterious lad), Howard Mandelbaum (Wednesday’s mysterious lad), Mike Hawks (Wednesday’s mysterious lad) and Roget-L.A. (Wednesday’s mysterious lad).
For Friday, we have this mysterious fishing buddies.
Update: This is Cesar Romero and Dana Andrews.
Also our mysterious leading lady.
Update: This is Jean Peters.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mystery guests), Anne Papineau (mystery movie and all mystery guests), Sylvia E. (Thursday’s mystery guests), Howard Mandelbaum (Thursday’s mystery guests), Incredible Inman (mystery movie, Tuesday’s mysterious TV patriarch, Wednesday’s mystery lad and Thursday’s mystery fellow), Mike Hawks (Thursday’s mystery guests), B.J. Merholz (mystery movie, Thursday’s mysterious gentleman), Roget-L.A. (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery guests) and Benito (mystery movie, Wednesday’s mystery lad and Thursday’s mystery fellow).
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No!
It’s Raymond Greenleaf in DEEP WATERS (1948).
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Raymond Greenleaf in Deep Waters
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“Skeptical” is somewhat better than “disapproving” at least.
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Will Geer.
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Would that be Raymond Greenleaf and Will Geer in Deep Waters?
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DEEP WATERS. Raymond Greenleaf Monday and Will Geer today.
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Aha! – Will Geer (beardless and still quite young here) having been blacklisted by HUAC severely curtailed his career and thus made this one easy to solve – and on Tuesday, even!: 1948’s Deep Waters, with Monday’s mystery man Raymond Greenleaf clinching it for me on IMDb. Sounds interesting!
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Hume Cronyn?
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Dean Stockwell.
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Mae Marsh; Ed Begley.
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Will Geer?
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Raymond Greeleaf and Will Geer in DEEP WATERS.
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Tuesday’s mystery fellow looks like a young Will Geer, possibly in Deep Waters (1948)
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If my previous guess is correct, then Monday’s mystery fellow is Raymond Greenleaf.
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Dean STockwell.
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Wednesday’s youngster is Dean Stockwell.
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Deep Waters 1948
Mon – Raymond Greenleaf
Tues – Will Greer
Wed – Dean Stockwell
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Deep Waters (1948) Dean Stockwell, Raymond Greenleaf, Will Geer, Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Ed Begley, Cesar Romero, Anne Revere…
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Dean Stockwell
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Dean Stockwell.
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Wednesday’s mysterious lad is Dean Stockwell in Deep Waters (1948)
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Yay! Mae Marsh, and Ed Begley.
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“Deep Waters,” featuring Raymond Greenleaf, Will Geer, Dean Stockwell, Mae Marsh and Ed Begley.
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Mae Marsh in image 1 / Ed Begley in image 2
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Ed Begley today. Will Geer and Dean Stockwell on Tuesday, making this “Deep Waters.”
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Mae Marsh and Ed Begley.
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Ed Begley may be trolling some deep waters.
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For “Aha Thursday”, it’s Mae Marsh and Ed Begley in Deep Waters (1948).
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Guess its Dean Stockwell and Ed Begley in DEEP WATERS 1948
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Cesar Romero and Dana Andrews, and Jean Peters.
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Cesar Romero, Dana Andrews; Jean Peters.
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Cesar Romero, Dana Andrews and Jean Peters.
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Cesar Romero and Dana Andrews
Jean Peters
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