“Deep Water” makes haunting use of 16-millimeter film shot by Mr. Crowhurst and others in the race. There are also recordings of his voice and excerpts from his log, which goes from eloquent descriptions of his trials and loneliness to sounding a bit like Mr. Kurtz.
It’s a cheerfully fanciful fable about a boozy beachcomber (Mr. Grant) who finds himself hot only shanghaied to be a wartime coastwatcher for the Ausutralian Navy on a lonely island in the New Guinea group, but also finds himself having to share his perilous outpost with a gaggle of stranded schoolgirls and their prissy custodian, played by Miss Caron.
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