Daring Game

{{short description|1968 drama film by László Benedek}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Daring Game | image = Dargame.jpg

| caption = Original film poster | director = László Benedek | producer = Gene Levitt Ivan Tors | writer = Art Arthur Andy White | narrator = | starring = Lloyd Bridges Nico Minardos Michael Ansara Joan Blackman Brock Peters Shepperd Strudwick | music = George Bruns | cinematography = Edmund Gibson | editing = Jack Woelz | studio = Ivan Tors Productions | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1968|3|19|New York City, New York|1968|4||United States}} | runtime = 100 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''Daring Game''''' is a 1968 action drama film, starring Lloyd Bridges and Nico Minardos, filmed at the Ivan Tors studio in Miami and in the Bahamas. The working title was ''The Unkillables''.<ref>''The Film Daily, Vol 130 1967''</ref>

The film features a team of adventurers and martial artists who are hired to rescue a captured scientist. The scientist is held prisoner by a dictator.

==Plot== Survival Devices, Inc., is an organization that employs a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator.

The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".<ref>{{cite news|journal=The New York Times|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9800E1DD153AEE34BC4851DFB5668382679EDE|title=Movie Review - - Daring Game'|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|authorlink=A. H. Weiler|date=March 20, 1969|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}</ref>

==Cast== * Lloyd Bridges as Vic Powers * Joan Blackman as Kathryn Carlyle * Nico Minardos as Ricardo Balboa * Michael Ansara as President Delgado * Shepperd Strudwick as Dr. Carlyle * Brock Peters as Jonah * Perry Lopez as Reuben

==Production notes== A Chase YC-122 Avitruc hired by the producers crashed en route from Fort Lauderdale to Bimini.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Nolan B. Canova's Pop Culture Review|url=http://www.crazedfanboy.com/nolansnewsstand/popculturereview89.html|last=Moriaty|first=William|title=The Paranormal in Florida. The Bermuda Triangle|volume=2|issue=49|date=December 3–9, 2001|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}</ref>

Ricou Browning directed the underwater sequences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internationallegendsofdiving.com/FeaturedLegends/Ricou_Browning_bio.htm|title=Ricou Browning - Actor, Film Producer, Director, Writer "The Gill Man"|publisher=International Legends of Diving|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218060858/http://www.internationallegendsofdiving.com/FeaturedLegends/Ricou_Browning_bio.htm|archive-date=February 18, 2017|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}</ref>

==See also== *List of American films of 1968

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0062862|Daring Game}}

Category:1968 films Category:1968 action films Category:1960s action drama films Category:American action drama films Category:Films scored by George Bruns Category:Films set in the Caribbean Category:Films shot in Miami Category:Films shot in the Bahamas Category:Paramount Pictures films Category:Underwater action films Category:1968 drama films Category:Films directed by László Benedek Category:1968 English-language films Category:1968 American films Category:English-language action drama films Category:Films about dictators Category:Films about parachuting Category:Films featuring underwater diving