# Daring Game

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{{short description|1968 drama film by László Benedek}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Daring Game
| image          = Dargame.jpg

| caption        = Original [film poster](/source/film_poster)
| director       = [László Benedek](/source/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Benedek)
| producer       = [Gene Levitt](/source/Gene_Levitt)<br>[Ivan Tors](/source/Ivan_Tors)
| writer         = Art Arthur <br /> Andy White
| narrator       =
| starring       = [Lloyd Bridges](/source/Lloyd_Bridges) <br /> [Nico Minardos](/source/Nico_Minardos) <br /> [Michael Ansara](/source/Michael_Ansara) <br /> [Joan Blackman](/source/Joan_Blackman) <br /> [Brock Peters](/source/Brock_Peters)<br>[Shepperd Strudwick](/source/Shepperd_Strudwick)
| music          = [George Bruns](/source/George_Bruns)
| cinematography = Edmund Gibson
| editing        = Jack Woelz
| studio         = [Ivan Tors Productions](/source/Ivan_Tors)
| distributor    = [Paramount Pictures](/source/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](/source/action_drama_film), starring [Lloyd Bridges](/source/Lloyd_Bridges) and [Nico Minardos](/source/Nico_Minardos), filmed at the Ivan Tors studio in [Miami](/source/Miami) and in the [Bahamas](/source/Bahamas). The [working title](/source/working_title) was ''The Unkillables''.<ref>''The Film Daily, Vol 130 1967''</ref>

The film features a team of [adventurers](/source/adventurers) and [martial artists](/source/martial_artists) who are hired to rescue a captured scientist. The scientist is held prisoner by a [dictator](/source/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](/source/HALO_jump) and establishes an inflatable underwater [basecamp](/source/basecamp) in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".<ref>{{cite news|journal=[The New York Times](/source/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](/source/Lloyd_Bridges) as Vic Powers
* [Joan Blackman](/source/Joan_Blackman) as Kathryn Carlyle
* [Nico Minardos](/source/Nico_Minardos) as Ricardo Balboa
* [Michael Ansara](/source/Michael_Ansara) as President Delgado
* [Shepperd Strudwick](/source/Shepperd_Strudwick) as Dr. Carlyle
* [Brock Peters](/source/Brock_Peters) as Jonah
* [Perry Lopez](/source/Perry_Lopez) as Reuben

==Production notes==
A [Chase YC-122 Avitruc](/source/Chase_YC-122_Avitruc) hired by the producers crashed en route from [Fort Lauderdale](/source/Fort_Lauderdale) to [Bimini](/source/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](/source/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](/source/List_of_American_films_of_1968)

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

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

{{László Benedek}}

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

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