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Jim Backus, Ken Berry, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/CharlotteRae, Creator/RichardDreyfuss, and Creator/MervGriffin (as himself) also appear in the film.

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''Hello Down There'' is a 1969 adventure-comedy film directed by Jack Arnold, starring Tony Randall and Creator/JanetLeigh.

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''Hello Down There'' is a 1969 adventure-comedy film directed by Jack Arnold, starring Tony Randall Creator/TonyRandall and Creator/JanetLeigh.
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Randall stars as Fred Miller, a marine scientist who has designed an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea, and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw unwanted scrutiny from the record executive who wants to arrange a tour as soon as possible.

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Randall stars as Fred Miller, a marine scientist who has designed an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea, and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw experiment, which draws unwanted scrutiny from the record a record-company executive who wants to sign them and arrange a tour as soon as possible.
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--> '''Merv Griffin''': So now you music lovers, fasten your seat belts, for the first time anywhere, anyplace, a brand new rock group called "The Green Onion", and their manager, Nate Ashbury, tells me he is stoned on these shouters, that they're mellow yellow, turned on and groovy and the lead chick is so wigged out, she's out of sight. Not only that, I hear they're very good.

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--> '''Merv Griffin''': So now now, you music lovers, fasten your seat belts, belts: for the first time anywhere, anyplace, a brand new rock group called "The Green Onion", and their manager, Nate Ashbury, tells me he is stoned on these shouters, that they're mellow yellow, turned on and groovy and the lead chick is so wigged out, she's out of sight. Not only that, I hear they're very good.
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Randall stars as Fred Miller, a marine scientist who has designed an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw unwanted scrutiny from the record executive who wants to arrange a tour as soon as possible.

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Randall stars as Fred Miller, a marine scientist who has designed an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea idea, and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw unwanted scrutiny from the record executive who wants to arrange a tour as soon as possible.
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Randall stars as Fred Miller , the inventor of an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw unwanted scrutiny from the record executive who wants to arrange a tour as soon as possible.

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Randall stars as Fred Miller , the inventor of Miller, a marine scientist who has designed an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw unwanted scrutiny from the record executive who wants to arrange a tour as soon as possible.
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--> '''Merv Griffin''': So now you music lovers, fasten your seat belts, for the first time anywhere, anyplace, a brand new rock group called "The Green Onion", and their manager, Nate Ashbury, tells me he is stoned on these shouters, that they're mellow yellow, turned on and groovy and the lead chick is so wigged out, she's out of sight. Not only that, I hear they're very good.

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--> '''Merv Griffin''': So now you music lovers, fasten your seat belts, for the first time anywhere, anyplace, a brand new rock group called "The Green Onion", and their manager, Nate Ashbury, tells me he is stoned on these shouters, that they're mellow yellow, turned on and groovy and the lead chick is so wigged out, she's out of sight. Not only that, I hear they're very good.good.

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''Hello Down There'' is a 1969 adventure-comedy about Fred Miller, the inventor of an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw unwanted scrutiny from the record executive who wants to arrange a tour as soon as possible.

Creator/JanetLeigh, Creator/RichardDreyfuss, Creator/CharlotteRae, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, and Creator/MervGriffin (as himself) appear in the film.


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''Hello Down There'' is a 1969 adventure-comedy about film directed by Jack Arnold, starring Tony Randall and Creator/JanetLeigh.

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Fred Miller, Miller , the inventor of an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw unwanted scrutiny from the record executive who wants to arrange a tour as soon as possible.

Creator/JanetLeigh, Jim Backus, Ken Berry, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, Creator/CharlotteRae, Creator/RichardDreyfuss, Creator/CharlotteRae, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, and Creator/MervGriffin (as himself) also appear in the film.

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''Hello Down There'' is a 1969 adventure-comedy about Fred Miller, the inventor of an underwater home that he wants to market commercially. His employer is dismissive of the idea and threatens to scrap the project and fire Fred unless he proves that he and his family can live in it for 30 days. The timing of this is problematic, as his children are in a rock band on the verge of making it big. Consequently, they invite their band mates to take part in the experiment and also draw unwanted scrutiny from the record executive who wants to arrange a tour as soon as possible.

Creator/JanetLeigh, Creator/RichardDreyfuss, Creator/CharlotteRae, Creator/RoddyMcDowall, and Creator/MervGriffin (as himself) appear in the film.


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* InformedAttribute: Early scenes make a big deal about Mrs. Miller being afraid of water, but she is remarkably calm and well-adjusted throughout the film while living in an underwater house with many portholes.
* LegFocus: One scene shows record company owner Mr. Ashbury lying on the floor listening to a record, while also showing the legs (and nothing else) of his associate Dr. Wells as she dances to the music.
* LivingProp: Tommie Miller has little dialogue and characterization compared to his sister and band mates.
* MasterComputer: Dr. Wells has a large computer that can accurately predict the consumer response to any rock-and-roll song that her boss is considering producing.
* MeaningfulName: Mel Cheever has an assistant named [[Literature/BookOfJonah Jonah]] and comments that it feels like a good omen now that they are spending three days underwater in the belly of something bigger (a dredging submarine rather than a whale in this case). He quickly regrets that analogy after learning what an unlucky klutz his Jonah is.
* ThreateningShark: A group of sharks menace the house at one point, although they aren’t portrayed as being deliberately predatory. They are attracted by the trash the family dumps (the film was made before most environmental regulations), and when Fred tries to divert them away by spraying a shark-attracting chemical nearby, the current carries it back to the house and the sharks follow.
* TeamPet: The dolphins Duke and Duchess and seal Gladys frequently visit the house and get along well with the family, with the dolphins having some life-saving moments.
* TotallyRadical: Recording magnate Nate Ashburry, Myrtle Ruth the housekeeper, and Creator/MervGriffin use a lot of sixties slang like "gassy" and "establishment", while the teenagers are surprisingly subdued in this regard.
--> '''Merv Griffin''': So now you music lovers, fasten your seat belts, for the first time anywhere, anyplace, a brand new rock group called "The Green Onion", and their manager, Nate Ashbury, tells me he is stoned on these shouters, that they're mellow yellow, turned on and groovy and the lead chick is so wigged out, she's out of sight. Not only that, I hear they're very good.

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