2, ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD Wed. Dec. 1, 1976

One man’s search for. millions”

drowned when the salvage ©

Hurricane ‘winds. struck

> the Florida Keys September

6, 1622, sinking the treasure-

ive laden Spanish — galleon

;  -Atocha. Now, three-and-a-
half centures later, an ex-

__ dive shop owner is bringing
-<her' millions of dollars in
treasure to the surface,

piece by precious piece.

The story of Mel Fisher's
-.. quest for atocha and her

\ lucrative cargo — now

| worth perhaps $100 million

a _is the subject of
* ‘Treasure! A new National
' Geographic Special airing

‘Tuesday, December 7 at 8°

p.m. on Public TV 9
- (rebroadcast Sunday,
December 12 at 3:30 p.m. )
- “Obsessed by -the lure of.
‘treasure, -Fisher, in 1963,

' staked‘ all he owned on. a.

-find. Moving his family and

“erew. from California ‘to:
.. Florida, he joineda treasure
vs ” salvage company. whose

 smembers agreed to work

~ without pa

y for a year. With

‘rare good fortune, they
...made an extraordinary find
“within that year. ‘Once you

ms see the ocean bottom car-—

°~ peted with gold. coins, you'll
“never forget it;”” Mel says of
~:the experience. The crew

had struck a pocket of gold .

: July 4,.

‘from Spanish ships wrecked
in 1715.

When. these shipwrecks

became less . lucrative,
Fisher turned his attention
to the Atocha, known to have
been carrying cargo of

immense value. Armed with

information gathered in
Spanish archives, Fisher

-moved to the Florida Keys,

and then to an area called
the Quicksands..
Here his years of tedious

search were rewarded.

Divers brought to the sur-
face a musket ball, an an-
chor, gold chain arid silver
coins. But ‘none of these.
proved that Fisher had
found the Atocha. Then, on
1973, .Fisher’s
teenage son came upon a

‘silver bar that had been
listed among ‘the Atocha’s
official cargo. Other finds
‘followed, including five of

the Atocha’ s 20 solid bronze
cannons. -

But Fisher's discovery
had its tragic side. Since the
ship went down, it had taken

“the lives of ‘sailors and

salvagers alike. A few days
after the cannons were
raised; Mel’s oldest. son

‘Dirk, his daughter-in-law

and a small crew were

discovered millions

ship suddenly sank.
Despite such tragedies
and constant  disap-
pointment, Fisher, like a
modern-day Ahab, is still

obsessed by treasure. Each

day ‘as he searches for the
whereabouts of yet un-
in
treasure, he vows: ‘'Today’s
the day”.

Treasure! was written,
produced and directed by
Nicholas Noxon and edited

-by Barry Nye. Howard

Worth and Dennis B. Kane
also directed. The program
is hosted by E.G. Marshall,
narrated by Alexander
Scourby, and co-produced
by the National Geographic
Society and WQED-
Pittsburgh. The National
Geographic Specials are
made possibly by. a grant
from Gulf Oil Corporation.

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retreat of a nouveau. riche dentist.

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. sand with your shoes off."

_The Academy Award nominee did -
her own stunts in Earthquake,” her
first picture filmed: in Hollywood,
‘and wanted no part of a double for

To teach her a lesson or two,
(ROBERT SHAW) duels

pirate captain Red Ned Lynch

with high-spirited Jane Barnet
(GENEVIEVE BUJOLO) in Universal’s “Swashbuckler,”

Polonski

(AVERY SCHREIBER) and other pirates look on as thelr snipe
The. Blarney” Cock, waits in the bay.

GENEVIEVE BUJOLD, .
DUELER IN THE SAND

No argument that Genevieve

4 Bujold knows. a thing or ‘two about

the fine art of swordplay — at least
not from Robert Shaw, James Earl
Jones, Peter Boyle, Beau Bridges and
Geoffray Holder, who star with her in
Universal's “Swashbuckler,” a.
Jennings Lang-Elliott Kastner Produc-

The Canadian-born actress, por-

-traying. a high-spirited heroine, is:

cailed upon by the screenplay to duel
with Shaw.

choreagraph and photograph.
To add to the difficulties, the

. scene was set on a sandy beach and

Genevieve was handicapped by a

. flimsy blouse and full skirt.

~ “twas also barefooted," she

“Try swordfighting in the

any of the dueling, leaping, diving,

. fighting and other: physical action in | -
“the romantic pirate drama. Particu-
* farly the fencing sequences,

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. for only.a few minutes took weeks to

ind them, and if:

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in the entertainment: section. .
are two Terrace. phone numbers,”

Pirate captain Red. Ned. ‘Lynch:
(ROBERT SHAW): ‘rescues ‘Jane

Barnet (GENEVIEVE. BUJOLD)

from the hands .of villainous

Lord Durant. in Universal's

“Swashbuckler,” filmed in Tech-

nicolor and Panavision. ~

a coulda’ t think of anything but
that duei_ from, the first day we. ‘Began
the film,” she'says. "I: was: thrilled -
but also frightened. | really shouldn’ t
have been, | had good ‘teachers and
everyone looked out. for me, includ-
ing Robert. He was an experienced
fencer, It was all new to'ma."

Genevieve, who moved ta. ‘Hally-
wood several years ago from Quebec,
isn’t sure that she wants: another go’
at being a modern-day Maureen -
O’Hara, tangting with the buccaneers,
and sometimes beating ‘them at their
own game, ;

But she. wouldn't. be: averse ‘to
playing Anne Bonney, whom she de-
scribes as “a woman pirate who's. in
the history ‘books. The story is that
one marning she had her. baby ona
pirate ship and that “night: fought .
along with the men on deck:"

“Swashbuckler” was produced by

Jennings Lang, with Elliott Kastner.
as executive producer, directed by .

_ dames Goldstone . in; Technicolor. and
- Panavision, _and written “by. Jeffrey,

Bloom as 4 screenplay from’ a: story

by Paul Wheeler. Willian 5. Gilmore,

Jr. served as associate producer.

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