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A couple's honeymoon trip aboard a yacht leads to a claustrophobic drama when another vessel runs into their voyage, apparently drifting.

Filming stopped when finances dried up and star Laurence Harvey died. According to Peter Bogdanovich, the only portion of the film not completed was an explosion towards the end of the story. Later part of Jeanne Moreau's dialog was lost but she was never asked to rerecord it. Currently the film exists in a work print held by the Munich Filmmuseum, which reportedly is now looking into the possibility of new footage being held privately in France.

Unfinished.

The source material for this film, the 1963 Charles Williams book, "Dead Calm," was made into an eponymous film by Phillip Noyce in 1989 and starring Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill.

Orson Welles intended the film to be a less personal, more commercially viable project than his past efforts, saying of The Deep (1970): "My hope is that it won't be an art-house movie. I hope it's the kind of movie I enjoy seeing myself. I felt it was high time to show that we could make some money." Nonetheless, Peter O'Toole recalled that he was approached by Welles to play the lead in the film and remembered The Deep as "a script that I thought was beautiful."

Although the production was deeply troubled, many of the people involved have spoken highly of the film, including lead Jeanne Moreau, who in 2000 looked back on the film as "a fantastic experience", noting that "the only disastrous thing was that later on, the film disappeared."

Orson Welles struggled to finish the film after production effectively halted in 1969. He edited trailers and short scenes to help secure financing, and at one point contacted Charlton Heston about recording voice-over narration.

The production was plagued by financial and technical problems. As work on the film became more sporadic and difficult, Orson Welles became increasingly withdrawn.

Decades later, leading actress Oja Kodar blamed the film's unfinished state on an unwillingness by jealous co-star Jeanne Moreau to dub her lines, while editor Mauro Bonanni claimed Orson Welles abandoned The Deep (1970) when he realized the novice Kodar was ill-suited for the lead role.

The film was shot off the coast of Yugoslavia between 1966 and 1969. It was photographed in color by Belgian cinematographer Willy Kurant, who also shot Histoire immortelle (1968) for Orson Welles.