Black Water Gold (1970) - full transcript

A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commercial expedition does.

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in our poaching on a game reservation
off the Florida Keys isn't the easiest

It's not an easy way to make a living right there was an
order for 12 yellow pork fish and that

could mean about $200 net profit easy
enough to do anyway who'd miss a dozen

pork fish that's how it all started

I knew all I'd have to do is wait a
spell now don't tell me you're up to the

safe drivers award a man there must be
other major criminals around for you to

chase on maybe you better save the funny
stuff for the beach chick Savage

because this time I'm riding you into
town or what driving out of a restricted

beach and I made a wrong turn boy
doesn't get us here with making a wrong

turn
okay what's it gonna be ten years for



trespassing ora maybe you'd like to
punch me around a little like you did

with nirvana
this time they ain't gonna be any

witnesses for a review board I got a
call from a police boat now why don't

you what get out
it resists arrest so I can have some

spawn come on beach boy get out the car

at first it looked like funky coral but
it didn't make sense a lot of shooting

two dead men for what but it wasn't just
coral it was as stuff diving dreams were

made of artifacts a fancy name for
treasure

the coral had taken root on the wreckage
of a ship and around one very special

item a Panama Eagle a nun melted gold
coin dating from the Inca it had to come

from a Spanish galleon called the
Hidalgo four maybe five million dollars

in cold hard treasure and it was
somewhere between the Florida coast in a

place called Tomlin's Key and Nassau and
somebody wanted it bad enough to kill

dr. Krystof burger please until next
Monday no no message



it could just be there possibly dying
for me and that's it ship called the

district audit Tomlin's key here in
Nassau fresh wreckage right in the

middle I found the bags of coral no
survivors no signs nothing no claims

written if it is a Hidalgo Chris it
means five million gold little pieces of

a puzzle a kind cut of fragments fell
over location we're going to need lot

more than that to work on my friend yet
science he's worked on the Hidalgo

papers for the past ten years I don't
have time to look for people he's diving

a cave right here NASA do we need him
Chris we you for the computer if I go I

would need a man who has a good set of
eyes and no water I don't think you're

good enough I'm as good at divers you
ever were perhaps but I was talking

about plagues that's why we need Zaius
will you come

and these conditions while my orders I
cut it for the fine will be mine we

split 80 for me and 20 for you okay oh

brother go well I uh
I certainly would like to Lin the pride

name wait wait wait now just a moment
wait now where is mr. Dugan Dugan well

uh we haven't found them both off the
Florida coast I figured I would go in

fast and take him off hey
but the jerk started started shooting he

ran you off he went fast and I ran there
scowl and if they hit the water started

shooting and they got away

you killed it idiot child I gotta
believe that anyone could he is the only

man who knows where the Adal go is I
just wanted him back and witnesses what

about that there were no witnesses we're
at sea right now I would I would like

drink ty can you do that little don't
have it in your care and pray for your

pathetically muscle-bound soul Roger
no he's signed were very bad anyway it

sounds bad how about mark you're going
through turmoil here I'll show you

tomorrow is another day

skeleton of death I didn't see how it
could fit in in all this luxury

you're glad to be down there another two
or three hours I'll go for him

No

where I grew up in Quebec we never had
games like this to explore to see it

besides when you found Cius you'll know
what to say to him

be careful because

down here sir
he diving as long as he been down for 30

minutes Oh what is any message

I look 10 years for the dunno when you
find it how we're only the evil I don't

have the adult earlier I need help to
find it syas help you you must be crazy

you forget Yucatan don't you what you
said Saez a good dirty story and but the

words are printed right here my friend
he has no standing and we decided to

take a community remember that it's
still tone oh yeah a good idea but you

couldn't get it up
you have no specialists in geology that

to me are invalid there were no checks
no laboratory proofs who needs them and

not me
cow bones in the field teach Anatomy you

dive in the ocean you learn about fish
laboratory truth Yucatan was my dream of

you forget about Yucatan Ollie I need
you

you're a good dad I need your instance
and I need your knowledge of the dark

mists science you want huh let us call
it a marriage of convenience

that's all Allie but together we can
make one of the most magnificent finds

of the last 10 years and that's very
important as it would be to you know

finding the inalco for me isn't anything
done what you see at 300 year old and

death
but what was taken from my country and

my people gold effigies of gods from the
acetates and the mayans

unmounted in original form so I will
calmly stuff I wonder not only to

satisfy my curiosity Tomlin's key
backwater coral fragment who was once a

pirate hideout now it's a haven for
millionaire yachts the kind of tourists

who always looks for those quiet little
places cut off from modern civilization

not every time six survivors of the
inalco I agree no and no 5 600 miles

away
then we disregard the testimony just

give me the facts Ollie I'll make the
determinations facts say nothing facts

say everything men say nothing in all of
nature only man is a rational he

struggles with that sense kills for no
reason he tastes feels smells hates

loves not like you were hidden no heart
go back to your books Ali I need

information I want you to hear something

mr. Jeff Lewis
they say you own most of the boats here

in Tomlin's boats the hotel the dive
shop many enterprises mr. port Bill

Porter what kind of boat you're looking
for for supporter how about a 30-footer

master for diving Oh both difficult this
is time

what kind of diver mainly pleasure a
friend of mine got a boat from you

little 20-footer the Dismas oh yeah yes
you know mr. Douglas Duggan's I forget

exactly name yeah well they call him MA
Duke up in the keys I never knew his

last name buddies Fred all scuba bums
are friends yeah he said he was doing

some diving off of um Shark Island no
wait uh what I have no idea mr. Porter

you're staying at the hotel yeah well
you need diving licenses they're $10

each I'm the legal officer here I'm
empowered to collect them

nah I'll get it by to you tomorrow
anyway try and give me the boat handles

little boy I can stay with you of your
life okay thanks what

mr. faucitt mr. faucitt I have news the
man who destroyed my boat and killed

your diver he's here in Tomlin's key how
do you know this my friend I've seen him

I spoke to him this morning he asked me
about the Dismas but I tricked him he

didn't even know Duggan's name mr.
Cullis are you sure this man is the

murderer oh he's the man I received a
bulletin from NASA yesterday he was at

the scene of the crime the police report
that he escaped but he was traced to

Nassau his name is Raymond Sanders and
he told me it was Porter hmm you've done

a remarkable bit of detective work my
friend uh have you reported this to

Nassau I well that's another reason why
I'm here the Thomson's radio start again

so I thought perhaps I could call from
your boat Lyle I think we ought to help

mr. Calus yes of course absolutely I
tell you what mr. Kepler's Raju and I

will send that message no you just stay
right there where you're comfortable

then we'll be back in a flash

would you like a drink used ecaflip's oh
no thanks I've had some problems with my

liver I'm quite yellow at times Oh
terribly unfortunate for you

look believe me I'm tell you there was
no one it was just impossible like I

told you to get me Dugan after his
double cross and instead you ran this

boat and killing you're a bit much but
when somebody shoots at me I shoot back

the thing was very very stupid all right
mistake you are mistake if the plane

falls it's not going to hit my neck

you know something ROG I think you've
got female admirer among faiths sandwich

has been dropped in your lap you can get
that gun on him and get him to the

police or ends here tell one lie and you
tell many others to covered it up

hold on to that darling mmm what what if
they were all like but why me I should

pull of other factors so they could go
back and get the ship them sandals now

we have nothing to go on
maybe but maybe some little thing with

her it went oh the one I did see man we
always throw him away he was crazy too

much Sun remember nobody ever paid any
attention to him what does he give us

nothing no facts nothing about the wind
direction Malaga we had wait wait I hear

he says my place of birth is the great
port of Almeria on the gentlest of

ceilings so to remain in almería a
malaga wind comes from the southwest

what about the hidden what about the
weather conditions I fucked my back with

break so many hours in the mast with the
lines staring at my hand and the sea

black when I says they kept in there so
long how long it would take maybe one

day maybe even two but the storm lasted
three days that would put them 500 miles

to the south
I won again I won a Grammy almost talks

about a half one nigga black water Holly
there is a place here called black key

we're too simple to laugh I won a blanky
okay how about 20 questions you tell me

what our mutter code just a hint like
know what the charges are before I'm

executed the charges are lying
gray Chris things who lied to him about

what the police rather hotel they were
asking about you they found why are you

doing

how's this for the compressor have you
explained the rifle the police come to

the hotel and find it in your room I
don't know yes whoever killed him is

trying to pin me for it never saw me
right I'm taking Egon with you when you

arrive what are they fired bohemian cops
don't carry guns they do really collect

the murderers your friend seems to act
first and think later if at all look we

got away didn't wait what's a big
complaint the big complaint is that you

make me and Ally and Egan accomplice
sister EVER G and I'm framed on the

pigeon I'll give me 48 hours if we find
the Hidalgo maybe we find the killers

Chris there's 5 million bucks out there
all right everything's ready let's go

we're not going what not until we clear
this with the police and lose the devil

perhaps you don't understand who many be
murdered so then I men would kill for a

dollar certainly for the dollar is not
the point

for 10 years I don't now I have the you
down oh I can taste it

I'm not it would be crazy to do this
thing now - what happened you've lost

your stomach haven't you guess Wamego
carrot all dried up don't dog me and

don't scold me I know the difference
between right and wrong and sanity and

insanity and this thing is wrong and
crazy like why you two guys are standing

here arguing my chances are being cut
now Chris I'm sorry we have to take you

with us but somebody's got a tent
topside

come on Egon let's go let these people
cut their own throat like to let you go

but not now incoming Olli it was never
any question alright let's get lucky

a gun I'd shoot you let up on me William
I should have made him leave this

afternoon if I had insisted he would
have gone like you had a lot to say

about it huh he doesn't listen to you or
me or anybody else for that matter

whatever he wants to do he does you
don't know him he came because of me oh

come now after the accident he warned me
what accident yes come on he hurt his

ear I was showing off I told y-z was
being down that far 10 minutes just 10

minutes and then rendezvous got back up
I never realized I was getting kitty him

too much a nitrogen so strange contact
with reality I couldn't tell up for you

down I started up

I began drifting to the bottom Chris
this is the only one who realized what

had happened he must have come 200 feet
to get me in your fast he couldn't hear

big part of his life was destroyed there
so you've been making it up to him ever

since
is that why you've stuck it out with him

oh yes I I know the boat addictive dad
heading there make it into 12 hours

why would they head there for the wreck
didn't I pay you for information that it

was off turtle reef I wish do I give you
for that turtle replication we're like I

don't remember but I I was never certain
of the accuracy oh I see

very well mr. canvas then where did to
him to dial up those artifacts and I

believe it was the black key maps innate
in other words I repaid him for nothing

we finished for the moment thank you for
the moment

well shall we go after them poor people
so troublesome

ties my love come here we will let your
little friend decide now if he goes to

Taurus we stay but if he goes to Aries
we go after them it's all up to

Alexander come here baby come to your
mommy here we go

you can't influence them you have to let
them go

okay hook it off we're gonna go in from
here hey Nelson

toss me the keys Thanks ventually not
necessary Sandidge probably not but I

don't want to risk anything you make us
risk everything but just being here well

it feels right electors oh you put on
your mask and jump into the water and

think you're going to find a pot of gold
I said it feels right like you could

turn a li stupid unprepared not tight
flowcharts those soundings no coins

nothing sounds good get them doctor
experts now we'll leave this on Pleasant

world

not a thing
Steve here too deep very thick the

second ship no ballast stones no panel
Toro the 40 yards the stern I saw a game

I think we should explore that's
grateful we're not looking at games well

I want to have a look inside no caves
alley we're here for the head dog Oh

remember you're quick with your temper
on your hand side for me but don't try

it on me I take no orders from you
I'm gonna take a look at that cake what

did it look like strange to arms like
branches reaching up and forming an arch

color infestations son yes
vicious falconer clucks I don't know it

was too quick a lens into Scotty
condition like that in the Polynesian go

but not here another armchair genius if
I could be with you down there I would

show you how stupid then stop hating me
because I can why don't you send Egon

with me she can go it's up to you

I hate the water because I can't go in
Chris please don't

Shh at least one good thing has come
from this trip for you and me I don't

want a nurse there's no exchange what
this Oh yellow Chris I was very upset

last night
ah you're all right stop hiding you

don't have to and you don't owe me
anything except you're going to the

water come on get into you soon I'm glad
to see I'm Eeva that Sam you don't

always use your head and it's
interesting that my information is

always opposite communal Jason get me a
new set I'm gonna make this survey in

the sand while they pleasure died

beautiful isn't it
it's so strange one of the see him

there's this great bubble inside how'd
it get here I don't know I don't know

Greece is right
amateur they're just a crazy Mexican

with a hunger but for what so people
will say Saiga's is a man who does

important things
you're a good historian Ari I actually

Oh
I scratch around in rods and pigs and I

find something something that looks
important and I want to know more I want

to know why and how and where little by
little like a like an ant making a sand

pie no you can um note historian creases
right amateur no question it's them

we'll just destroy their book Kepler's
report there was an accident

catch a killer all in one fortunate
circumstance James Bond hmm makes you

feel like Superman child's game this is
real life

the real people out there well they may
have something I want

buys from them if all the money takes
just buy it and wonder what I do to make

life interesting well

dr. stand we get up the bar I'm gonna
tires tires tires my dog just think from

Bunker Vice Teddy Seabury are you a pop
down to the bit please

get up understand taste if they keep
coming chop

yeah I'll give you my hand watch it
watch it it's fire Roger bring the

dynamite dice will blow this filthy scow
and we can sit up top and wait what do

you think it was well they went under
and they haven't come up so just offhand

sweetheart I'd say this drowned

oh well isolate it out here what ended
at night six special security guards

cover the entrances but the second and
third story office windows vulnerable

these guards are just for show for
tourist movements the real security of

plainclothesmen during visiting hours
there are many workable hiding places I

should check to check the suits of armor
for possible cover ah the beatsie

gallery filled with Italian Renaissance
goodies

open late evening and in workman's
clothes a switch of copy for original I

mother hello how you doing over tell him
to lay off the golf of it still bothers

him over the fun lovers left in Kingston
or argent I have been diving Audrey said

she saw you a very straight girl Oh
Marjorie probably had a few too many a

listen mother I found some nice pieces
for you this time in gold I'm sure

you'll like them over I never got those
other ones you said you were bringing

Lyle I thought you were coming up to
Hyannis yes

listen mother the receptions getting bad
so you'd be good Eakins take care of

that yeah bye-bye now bloody Oh
bye-bye

how'd you like to have that come on
strange girl don't be so uptight hey Rob

no I'll tell you what hmm let's go
diving for lobsters

I'd like some for a snack come on I'd
like to call about my business accounts

are due tomorrow
forget it our account is more important

please someone say sup what can you hear
me

Chris can you hear me you're nothing
do you know this island we're going to

need water so why don't you take Jason
and see if you can find some Holly can

you understand me
yes please it's strange not being able

to hear myself boy hey I understand go
ahead you were right I was wrong about

what what the cave this place I never
would have come here you want my apology

- alright
no no l20 it was the wild guess impulse

but it was exactly right Ali we have it
we have the dog

how how you were right about the wind
you were right the back in store you're

right about everything you were right
about the color of the water you see I

couldn't believe that the ship could be
in such what so deep but then I saw the

K then I realized I realized that it was
founded to surface I'm certain that the

cave area was the reef and below we find
the bones of the indigo you figure this

out or who were trapped in the cave may
go you're a genius good they'll have

votes we will be able to get off this
island and we can get them to garrison

dry clothes

I'd like one of your people in a boat to
get back from Nassau how long do you

think it's gonna take with the best wing
about three days and nights y'all gettin

close to the Hidalgo they find it they
will dynamite the reef and destroy the

dangle we're not gonna lose you know
aerodrome oh I need 10 year people and

all the fishing boats in the village hey
we want to go diving in this spot how

long will you be pitching oh not too
long you look they're scrounging up the

stuff killed in the blast can't very
well go diving with those things in the

water could you look it's alive with

yes yes he's gonna be in a real snappy
how did he go no nobody dies well no the

babies are in the water
can you hear in a bad woman but I can

understand Chris please come here will
you level with me

Oh God are you sure fairly sure the
adult with nothing it sure we still

trying to prove Einstein's theory we
should prove that Chris we have to bring

up one sample if we're going to make a
claim we have to show something more

than just the theory don't we
how did the question it's too risky

Chris it was out of the question that
this was the place remember

all right how would you go about a night
dive Chris yeah they've got magnesium

fishing floats here in the village
I live yes I would even I can well I've

always found something rather
distasteful event democratic principle

structure in this case I was bowed to
the majority see go make it I hope our

friends were the Finns and things are
not there let's get the tax I to take it

easy but we don't you for the VIP if it
gets rough for you I can always find a

replacement I'm getting bored out here
so we're working around the clock

listen those catalysts really have a
lovely morning now that's more like it

always plan ahead

okay here we are
hey Coast right we got to go out I don't

have a mile stay close together always
keep it inside of each other

right here we got an intense fishing
village

we got to go under them right about here
we've got to salvage the compressor we

use float bags to pull it to the surface
and towed ashore it probably sunk very

close to the wreck okay now why don't
you go see what our friends on the

yarder up to I will cover the bottom at
30 foot intervals you work from the

mouth
I was torches are going to last about

five minutes they're busy as bees out
there their lights all over the place

we'll go in here and light these
underwater come in keep watching

excuse me
you have light support oh we go diving

at night yes and guns
I think we've better feed mr. Carlos

don't you I forgot to give him lunch
she'll be near de L I'll look at this I

think I see flares going underwater we
thought divers huncle two or three over

there Lyle they're heading out toward
the reef it's got to be them

the compressor it was a pain in the neck
and it would take time to get it but it

was the only chance to refill our tanks
if we didn't find the Hidalgo on the

first dive it's an old trick like making
a hot air balloon we'd fill the bag with

air compressor toward the service

I can't I stay here watch them

they're down there
maybe they've found something we're

going to do have to it's cool
stay behind me Jason stay closer

such a more I wonder if it's worth all
the chocolate gonna be easy to get there

that's not all make a mistake I get your
spear gun it's tied with off make a

mistake Arashi we'll finish them off we
had to put the flares out and fast the

lights up on top were a shock then we're
gonna make it very hard to find a magic

place underwater all I saw was a spear
guns at 10 feet they make a very nasty

hole in the body

it must have been Holly who dreamed up
the net given couldn't let his man into

the track and it didn't work there would
have been some tiny Martians for the

local shark

I found the Cape mouth and headed in all
I had to do was dump my tanks fix a

mouthpiece so it get public I didn't
know for sure what I was gonna do after

that except go as far as what long
breath would carry me

I had to get to the compressor there was
air in that float bag that will give me

enough to do what I had to do drop the
compressor over the cave entrance and

lock in

play the other side there okay
I've just seen the Hidalgo Chris and

she's beautiful Sonya you will be a very
wealthy young man yeah look you'd be

careful here you're not gonna learn it
all in one day you know he's gonna be

okay I'll tell you what why don't you
take my house but I'm gonna be cutting

out of here as soon as his police things
play better it's gonna take me at least

five years to go through what I made
here where will you go

where there's warm wind and deep water I
don't know any other way it works well

then so long right somewhere well and
ten years looking for what now buddy

well I am going to spend the rest of my
life starting at fishing no no that's

too long now on the gun trade not long
enough amigo so much to learn if I got a

hundred years I couldn't put it all in
my mind

come on Ellie you know what's gonna
happen you're gonna end up like Chris

here all brains no action well that's
not a bad thing you know Holly you know

when we finish excavating for the
evaluator I was thinking about the other

BAM yes and well I've said you and I
together we could crank it wide open

oh you mean what did you call it a a
marriage of convenience

well let's just call it the meeting of
their mind what about the heart I wanted

to tell you personally mr. Santosh that
I will be a witness on your behalf I

know all the details about their plan to
play me with a measure mr. Dougan now

the worm turns thank you you're very
thoughtful yes sir

tyres she's quite lovely I know Mr
Sanders one moment please

it's so fortunate so very fortunate that
you and your group of scientists have

found this in doubt go I've always
maintained that this was the very spot

oh really yes in fact I feel I was one
of those responsible for its discovery

yep blows if they inscribe a plaque of
tribute don't make sure your name is

Richard and spelled correctly

the murky deep God's will his prize the
tragic tale is told...

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