A great book, Spoonhandle, becomes the film Deep Waters

By Colin W. Sargent

Barely a year after Spoonhandle (1946) spent 14 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, actor Dana Andrews strolled onto Vinalhaven to shoot the film adaption, Deep Waters (released in 1948). A non-materialistic student-architect turned lobsterman (Andrews) finds more meaning in his life when he rescues an edgy orphan (Dean Stockwell) and reconnects with a social worker he’d once been engaged to (Jean Peters). Nuclear family restored!

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