The pop-eyed serpent of The Sea Serpent |
Pedro Fontan (Timothy Bottoms) loses his licence as ship's captain and may go to jail for claiming that his ship was sunk by a sea monster. Linares (Jared Martin), who didn't see the creature, insists to a board of review that Pedro was drunk. Pedro was also captain of another ship that sunk, and Linares' sister died. Leaning of a woman, Margaret (Taryn Power), who was institutionalized after seeing her friend devoured by the creature, Pedro goes to see her and sneaks her out of the hospital. The two then contact Professor Wallace (Ray Milland), who after initial distrust, believes their stories and decides to help them track down the sea monster, which was apparently created or revived when the military activated and dropped an atomic bomb in the ocean to keep it out of the hands of the enemy (!).
Bottoms, Power, Milland |
Bottoms and Power |
The Sea Serpent was Milland's last theatrical film. Power only made one more film out of ten. Bottoms' career survived this flop and he is still acting and producing today. Martin passed away in 2017 at age 75.
Verdict: Not completely atrocious, but hardly one of the better efforts in the genre. **.
Timothy Bottoms was one of my childhood crushes, along with his brother Joseph. Were there more in the clan? I seem to remember a racy picture in a magazine where all the Bottoms boys were sitting on the edge of a hot tub, showing their bottoms...but have never been able to find the photo again.
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The Bottoms boys showing their bottoms, eh? Can't imagine what magazine that might have been in, LOL! I can remember the two brothers you mention -- don't know if there was a third or fourth as with the Baldwin brothers. It seemed as if there was a new Baldwin brother every time you turned around!
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