Around the World Under the Sea (MGM) (1966)

Shirley Eaton is a beautiful actress who has suddenly started collecting intriguing titles. For the third picture in succession, she is referred to as “the girl who... .” In this case, it is “the girl who lost part of her bikini.” The picture is “Around the World Under the Sea,” an Ivan Tors underwater adventure-drama for MetroGoldwyn-Mayer, starring the blonde beauty with Lloyd Bridges, Brian Kelly, David McCallum, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson and Gary Merrill. Miss Eaton plays the only feminine scientist aboard a submarine which sets out on a scientific expedition to plant sonar devices in dangerous spots on the ocean floor so that they can detect and give warning of imminent earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. RABBITS TAUGHT 10 BREATHE UNDERWATER! Movie producer Ivan Tors is an animal’s best friend. For several years he has either been making feature pictures about one or more animals or has integrated sequences with wild life in all types of productions. His newest adventure-drama is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Around the World Under the Sea.” It concerns a group of scientists who make a dangerous expedition to far distant areas of ocean floors in order to plant sensors which will bring warning of earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Engaging in risk of life and limb, with a bit of healthy romancing on the side, are Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, David McCallum, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson and Gary Merrill. Despite the fact that the story is about people in action, Tors was able to feature an abundance of non-human performers, Most of them are of the marine variety, including rampaging whales, a trained dolphin, a ferocious giant moray eel, luminescent fish, manta rays and literally millions of exotic fishes. In addition, he made room for some rabbits, which in the story are taught to breathe underwater by Wynn, and some hamsters employed in biological experiments by Shirley Eaton. Using aquatic wild life is nothing new to Ivan Tors, producer of the popular “Flipper” television series. The success of that program motivated him to make many shots of the deep sea inhabitants for “Around the World Under the Sea” and he sent camera crews to varid&s coastal areas to capture remarkable photography. Animals have been used by the producer in such pictures as “Rhino!”, “Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion” and “Zebra in the Kitchen.” “Rhino!” was filmed in Africa, but the other two were produced in California and made use of the several hundred animals that live at “Africa, U.S.A.,” a compound owned by Tors and Ralph Helfer. It is the world’s largest private zoo and supplies 90% of all the “wild” animals seen in movies, television and even commercials, SHIRLEY EATON: “THE GIRL WHO...” Since the action has her splashing in the sea at times, much of her film wardrobe comprised shorts, swim suits and the above-mentioned bikini. In one scene she gets careless and becomes “the girl who .. .” when the bra of her bikini is separated from her torso, Miss Eaton is the actress who recently was referred to as “the girl who wore the gold paint” when she was coated with a layer of glittering gilt in “Goldfinger.” Just prior to that, she was “the girl who bested Mike Hammer” in the movie, “The Girl Hunters,” based on a Mickey Spillane detective novel, Shirley, who hails from Hertfordshire, England, made her first visit to the United States for “Around the World Under the Sea,” although she got no nearer to Hollywood than the waters off Florida and Nassau. VERY GOOD SPORT Blonde and glamorous Shirley Eaton (the gilded girl of *‘Goldfinger’’) took time out from her new role in MGM’s exciting Ivan Tors production, ** Around the World Under the Sea,’ to do some deep sea fishing. She had plenty of opportunity since the thrilling underwater drama was filmed in Panavision and color largely off the coasts of Florida and the Bahamas. Around the World Under the Sea Still 1787-E Mat 1-E Lloyd Bridges, Brian Kelly, David McCallum and Marshall Thompson enact scientists working on the ocean floor with the help of a unique submarine in MGM’s thrilling Ivan Tors production, ‘Around the World Under the Sea.’ Shirley Eaton, the gilded girl of ‘‘Goldfinger, 399 plays the feminine starring role in the Ivan Tors production, filmed in Panavision and Metrocolor largely below the surface of ocean waters off the coasts of Florida and the Bahamas. Still 5314-92 E Around the World Under the Sea Mat 2-E SAVED FROM DEATH IN “AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA” Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, Marshall Thompson, Lloyd Bridges, David McCallum and Keenan Wynn are happy at their narrow escape from death in MGM’s thrilling Ivan Tors production, “Around the World Under the Sea.’ They marine which was trapped on the ocean flo breathtaking drama was filmed in Panavisio waters off the coasts of Florida and the Bahamas. The picture Still 5314-8 have just blasted the control capsule of their subor following an exploding underwater volcano. The n and Metrocolor largely below the surface of ocean was directed by Andrew Marton. Around the World Under the Sea Mat 3-A “AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA,” WITH ALL-STAR CAST, BREATHTAKING DRAMA OF SUBMARINE EXPLORING OCEAN FLOOR Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, David McCallum, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Gary Merrill Star in MGM’s Thrilling adventure Filmed in Panavision and Color Off the Coasts of Florida, the Bahamas and Great Barrier Reefs of Australia Filmed in Panavision and Metrocolor around the world from the Great Barrier Reefs of Australia to the Bahamas and the ocean waters off the coast of Florida, “Around the World Under the Sea,” new Ivan Tors production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is a spellbinding drama highlighted by unremitting excitement and explosive action, The unusual deep sea adventuredrama revolves about a group of specialized scientists who make a submar FILMING THE BIRTH OF A BABY SHARK! Thanks to patient watching on the part of a shark baby-sitter, producer Ivan Tors was able to capture one of the most unusual scenes in movie history for his MGM adventure-spectacle, “Around the World Under the Sea.” The screen play writers included a scene in which Keenan Wynn shows Lloyd Bridges the birth of a baby shark in a tank within an underwater laboratory at the bottom of the ocean off the Bahamas. It was up to the filmmakers to photograph the birth. Various species of sharks produce young in different ways, some from an instantly-hatching egg, others from an egg which matures for nine months before the babies fight their way out of the sac. Researchers for ‘Around the World Under the Sea” found a dozen of the latter type of ova and set up a watch. As the time for birth approached, a Panavision color camera was installed and back-lighting was rigged, since the embryos are transparent. Two eggs seemed to be approaching the birth stage. A baby-sitter was placed on duty and when signs indicated that a wriggling little shark was due to emerge, he sounded the alarm, Subsequently, a camera was in operation for a whole hour. All in all, six months of preparation was entailed in obtaining this one shot. It lasts less than a quarter of a minute on the screen! ine expedition to the most dangerous spots in the Seven Seas to imbed sonar devices in the ocean floor, along giant faults in the earth’s crust, and over cones of volcanos in order to give warning of seaquakes and subsequent tidal waves. An all-star cast was assembled for this fascinating drama, written by Arthur Weiss and Art Arthur and produced and directed by Andrew Marton. Cast as members of the submarine ex Shirley Eaton, the gilded girl of ‘*Goldfinger,’’ and David McCallumshare exciting adventures in MGM’s thrilling Ivan Tors production ‘*Around the World Under the Sea,’’? in a cast also starring Lloyd Bridges, Brian Kelly, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson and Gary Merrill. The breathtaking underwater drama was filmed in Panavision and Metrocolor largely below the surface of the ocean waters off the coasts of Florida and the Bahamas. Around the World Under the Sea Still 1790-E Mat 1-F pedition are Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, David McCallum, Keenan Wynn and Marshall Thompson, with Gary Merrill as a Washington expert on seismic systems. The story’s romantic implication involve Miss Eaton (the gilded girl of “Goldfinger’’), as the only feminine member of the crew, and Brian Kelly, who at first had opposed her joining the dangerous venture. “Around the World Under the Sea” will hold audiences in its grip from its very first thrill sequence in which Kelly, far underseas in an ocean satellite, is pursued by a group of whales which crash into the satellite, cracking its shell. This is only one of the film’s many awesome scenes. There is another in which Keenan Wynn is attacked by a gigantic moray eel, a sea monster larger than the entire submarine. Still another sequence depicts the tense journey to a sunken ship in an attempt to secure a cargo of germanium transistor crystals worth four-million dollars, Then there is a remarkable scene taking place in a huge bell in which Wynn lives at the bottom of the sea in a laboratory in which rabbits learn to breathe underwater and shark embryos are hatched. In the story’s climax, the submarine, christened Hydronaut, finishes its mission by dropping a sonar device on the edge of an active volcano. The drop is made but the volcano erupts and belches fire through ocean waters, and so violent is the explosion that an entire is-~ land is blown to bits and sinks beneath the sea! As a result of the explosion, the submarine is caught in the slippage and is trapped. The action that ensues is spinetingling as the desperate scientists in the trapped sub use plastic explosives to blast their ship partially free, with the Hyronaut triumphantly rising to the surface after Lloyd Bridges swims outside it to sever a cable with an underwater flare. These are the peaks of excitement which make “Around the World Under the Sea” literally marvelous entertainment. It is an adventure drama not to be missed. 9