Wet Gold

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Wet Gold
Directed by	Dick Lowry
Produced by	Bill Coker
Written by	David Sherwin Otis Jones
Starring	Brooke Shields Burgess Meredith Thomas Byrd Brian Kerwin
Music by	Sylvester Levay
Cinematography	James Pergola
Editing by	Artie Mandelberg
Distributed by	Telepictures Productions
Release date(s)	1984
Running time	91 min
Country	USA
Language	English
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Wet Gold (1984) marked the television movie debut of Brooke Shields. It was directed by Dick Lowry.

1 Taglines
2 Main cast
3 Plot summary
4 Ratings

[edit] Taglines

Forbidden love...Untold treasure...A world of terror...What lies waiting beneath the deep? (TV)
Gold lured them to the deep...greed and jealousy led them to terror! (VHS)
She sought a fortune. She found a nightmare. (DVD)

[edit] Main cast

Brooke Shields - Laura
Burgess Meredith - Sampson
Thomas Byrd - Chris Barnes
Brian Kerwin - Ben Keating

[edit] Plot summary

Wet Gold is the story of Laura, a young woman who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles across Sampson, a drunk eldery man who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that sank with millions of dollars in gold. Although Laura's boyfriend Chris Barnes keeps telling her that Sampson's stories are all false, Sampson makes her believe that they are indeed true. Laura takes Sampson to a library, where she finds on old a newspaper article that matches up the events he described.

After becoming a true believer, Laura convinces Barnes, Sampson and a dive owner, Keating, to search for the treasure. Together they set off from Key West in the baker's boat that Barnes is supposed to be looking after. Keating shows a liking for Laura, and because of this, Barnes begins to feel uncomfortable with him. After spending some time in the water, their dreams become reality, but the discovery of gold begins to change their personalities. Tensions fill the air as passions rise in the wake of greed and jealousy for both the fortune and Laura.

[edit] Ratings

When Wet Gold premiered on ABC-TV on Sunday, October 28, 1984, it was the highest rated TV program in its 9-11PM time slot. But when it repeated on Sunday December 21, 1986, it was the lowest rated TV program of the evening. The highest rated one was NBC-TV's holiday special Bob Hope's Bagful Of Christmas Cheer, on which Hope's co-stars included Wet Gold star Brooke Shields.