THE NEPTUNE FACTOR an undersea odyssey

One more movie of the 1970's.
This one belongs to the kind of forgotten movies I would say.
This part is really cool :) Great sci-fi. Oldie but goodie.

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Film & Animation

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• Neptune
• undersea
• odyssey
• suspense
• oceanography
• sci-fi
• marine
• Gazzara
• Pidgeon
• Borgnine
• Petrie

[CaptainBluebear08]

Ha ha, I saw this on the tube when I was a child and liked it. Cousteau was much en vogue.

Keep it up; personally, I like the 70s.

[ameroeuro]

Tell me about it :) Noticed that a lot of people have some fondness for the 70s. So do I.

[CaptainBluebear08]

Well, since I was a kid then (albeit a conscious one), there's just TOO much that I associate with it. Anyways, TV in the 70s was a great third way (escape?) between a dull ordinary life here and the reluctance against a quasi collective experience of going-to-the-cinema there...

And it was JUST before the invasion of the commercial channels and all of their just unbelievable mindless studipidity. Today, I hardly believe what's become of the tube (altho' we rather could expect it)

[ameroeuro]

Not only TV has been changed. People live at faster pace, our daily lives are more conditioned to the economy of an environment. However you look at that: "Money makes go round" (even too much !)

[PeterKuypers]

The guy in the darkblue shirt is Donnelly Rhodes who now plays doctor Kettle in 'Battlestar Galactica', boy he sure has aged!

[MadVeeblefetzer]

I loved enjoyed like blazes this movie when I was a kid ;-]

[barnstormer4]

I remember wanting to see this movie when I saw the commercial for it back in August of 1973. My brother took my Mom, a cousin of ours, and myself, to the old Southside Twin Drive-In Theatre. He drove a gold 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, complete with an 8-track tape player(!), and we seen it on it's west screen. GREAT memories! Thank you very much for posting this "oldie but goodie".

[999manman]

@ThoughtTraveler I agree....the new vast expanses of cinemas have their allure but something is missing...

BTW E.T. may have come out in '82 but WE didn't get it at our theatre until '83! Seriously!

[ThoughtTraveler]

LOL!

It had the SAME sticky floors as your place. It had the one lady in the round glass booth in the front taking tickets and you stood in line outside on the street to buy your ticket.

Real old school!

ET came out in 82 so it has been closed for a while........sad....

I think you miss something seeing a movie in those VAST cinema complexes you have now...

[999manman]

I bet it was a great work of architecture! I love Deco...esp. "Hollywood" Deco.

Our theatre as I recall had the stickiest floors imaginable and the most incredible grafitti on the men's bathroom wall...and to add class the toilet paper holders were bent coat hangers! But the admissions were cheap and the candy selection was killer!

Last film I saw there was "E.T". The place closed shortly thereafter and is now an apartment building.

[ThoughtTraveler]

: )

yeah...those were the good old days!

My home town Theatre was an old fashioned single screen Art Deco place. I remember walking to movies to it too as a boy.

I remember seeing "The Hindenburg", "The Poseidon Adventure", and "Digby-The Biggest Dog in the World"....back in the good old 70s

You are right about not allowing your kid to do the same now. Sad.

[999manman]

Oops! Used someone else account! Sorry!

[mammatusofmystery]

i was about 9 or 10....walked uptown after dark all by myself to the local theatre, watched it and part of the second feature " The Seven Ups". Walked home again. Shame I wouldn't dare let my kids do the same now.

[ThoughtTraveler]

@999manman

If you saw this at the Theatre then you must be my age!

I have not seen this movie since I was 8 or something!

Brings back memories....