Deep Waters.

Duration: 85 min.

Genre: drama

Year Published: 1948

Creator: Henry King

Format: 35mm

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Jean Peters, Dana Andrews

Description: This romantic story of an orphan boy and his love for the sea shows life in a lobster-fishing community in Maine.

State of Maine social worker Ann Freeman breaks her engagement to fisherman Hod Stillwell, explaining that she could never bear being constantly concerned about his safety. In this same period, she convinces her friend Mary McKay to take in 11-year-old Donny Mitchell, whose father and uncle died at sea. The following day, Donny befriends Hod while hunting. Hod discovers Donny on his lobster bank, having rowed out to it in a dingy and stolen two of Hob's lobsters. Hod gives him a good telling off and returns him home to Mary and suggests she let Donny work for him on his

Complete Record: DEEP WATERS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1948. 85 min., sd., sepia, 35mm. Based on the novel "Spoonhandle" by Ruth Moore. Summary: This romantic story of an orphan boy and his love for the sea shows life in a lobster-fishing community in Maine. Credits: Producer, Samuel G. Engel; director, Henry King; screenplay, Richard Murphy; music, Cyril Mockridge; music director, Lionel Newman; film editor, Barbara McLean. Cast: Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 7Jul48; LP2059.

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