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Plot

Partially filmed in Hawaii and Tahiti, And the Sea Will Tell was a two-part TV movie based on a real murder case. A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It's fairly clear that the hippies were involved in the crime: The question is, did the man do it while the girl looked on helplessly, or was she a willing accomplice? Richard Crenna plays real-life defense attorney Vincent Bugliosi, upon whose book And the Sea Will Tell was based. The first part of this teledrama premiered on February 24, 1991; part two, in which the girl's testimony consumes most of the screen time, was shown on February 26.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Crime and Mystery,Drama,Thriller
Run Time:
96min.
Director(s):
Tommy Lee Wallace
Themes:
Dangerous Friends,Murder Investigations
Keywords:
Pacific-Ocean,couple,courtroom,duo,husband,investigation,island,killing,lawyer,murder,sea,trial [courtroom],wife