SIXTEEN FATHOMS DEEP (1934) Sally O'Neil & Lon Chaney Jr. | Adventure, Romance | B&W

Sixteen Fathoms Deep is a 1934 American film directed by Armand Schaefer and starring Lon Chaney Jr and Sally O'Neil. It was an early leading role for Chaney, then billed under his birth name "Creighton Chaney".

SYNOPSIS
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.

A sponge diver, Joe Bethel, hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his fiancée, Rosie. He must deal with a villainous fellow diver, Savanis.

CAST & CREW
Sally O'Neil as Rosie
Lon Chaney Jr. as Joe Bethel (billed as "Creighton Chaney")
Russell Simpson as A. B. Crockett
Maurice Black as Nick
Jack Kennedy as Mike
George Regas as Savanis
Constantine Romanoff as Kargas
Richard Alexander as Martin
Raul S. Figarola as Chinchin
Lloyd Ingraham as Old Athos
Robert Kortman as Cimos
Si Jenks as Sculpin

Directed by Armand Schaefer
Written by Barry Barringer, Norman Houston
Based on the American magazine story by Eustace L. Adams
Produced by Paul Malvern
Production company Paul Malvern Productions
Distributed by Monogram Pictures
Release date 18 January 1934 (New York)
Running time 58 mins
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
O'Neil made the film after missing out on the role in Sitting Pretty (1933) to Ginger Rogers.

The New York Times called Sixteen Fathoms Deep a "good swaggering specimen" of action melodrama, "exciting, plausible and a lot of fun."

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