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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Leigh McCloskey plays Magnus Dens, a young man who returns to his childhood home in Bermuda to investigate his father's mysterious death. He meets up with two of his father's colleagues(played by Burl Ives & Carl Weathers) who are marine biologists looking into reports of giant sea creatures, and in particular a giant turtle. He also meets up with a beautiful and mysterious young woman(Connie Sellecca) who had been a friend of his from childhood, and has a strange and deadly connection to the giant turtle, which is no myth...Effective and eerie TV film became a legend among viewers back in the late 70's as "that giant turtle movie", since the actual title was forgotten, and this film seldom seen. Has a memorably melancholy air of mystery and loss, and a haunting song "Jennie" about the ghostly and doomed woman Magnus is in love with. Scenes with the turtle are well done and exciting, and this film is worth seeing on DVD, from Warner Archive collection.

So many reviews written here sounds like exactly what I experienced. I, too, saw this movie when I was about 9 or so. And it's been haunting me for years. I searched around for the title a couple of years ago but couldn't figure out what the movie was. Recently, I was reading about Connie Sellecca on Wiki and it mentioned she starred in The Bermuda Depths. When I saw that title, I knew I had finally found this movie.The memories this movie left on me were exactly what a great movie should leave. I felt I was taken away into a surreal world where a beautiful woman is banished to the sea, where her love could never be. They were each other's magical childhood friend, forever together scribbled as "J+M" in a heart on the back of a turtle they found together on the beach. Though the special effects are cheesy and the acting is spotty at best, it really does make you forget all that and just lets you concentrate on the story line. And I do like that fact that it's slow paced without a slick script. The sad ending at the end is what makes the movie too!!I'm glad to have finally found a copy of the movie. This storyline could be such a great remake. I would love to see a modern version of this with computer animation and a richer dialogue.

I am absolutely shocked at how may kids of the 70's this movie has stuck with after all these years! Like everyone else, I was 7 or 8 and never forgot this movie. I've mentioned it in passing several times and always got a crazy look. A movie about sea turtles? I thought I was the only one who remembered the giant sea turtle movie, or maybe I dreamed up the whole thing. Should I ever have the opportunity to see this horribly wonderful movie again, I'm sure I'll ask myself what the amazement with the movie was about in the first place. I'd LOVE to see it again - along with Lucan the wolf boy. Make sure you sign the petition at the website listed in a previous comment!

I was bored and a search on Google for giant turtle etc etc brought me here to this page and it's great to see that there are others!Well just to echo all the echoing I have to do the same and say I'm another one of those kids who saw this movie about the giant turtle, the carved initials, the boy and girl on the beach in the sand. According to other comments it was in 1978 I guess when I was 7 or 8 depending on the month, and I was affected deeply by it.I'm not much of a movie fan even but don't know what it is exactly, the images and sounds really have "haunted" and "lingered" with me deep down inside for all these years.It's not as if you bring up a movie about a giant turtle at all really (my wife thought I was nuts but to give her credit her parents hadn't even met in 1978) but a funny thing happened this one time. Ironically enough it was probably the last time I thought about the 'Giant Turtle'.A few years back when I was meeting my hometown best friend's fiancé for the first time we got to talking over a few bottles of wine about this and that and somehow that giant turtle got into my head - and I mention it thinking whatever, it'll be a "Giant what?" kind of response when instead I get stunned silence and we sit there looking at each other like ... "Was there an egg in the sand??" "Maybe, and the initials on the turtle's shell, in the heart!" "'eah, and the guy getting hauled off at the end??" "The music??" "YEAH, and..." More stunned silence and then laughter - relief.We became each other's 'only other one' for just that couple of minutes and the 3 of us went on talking about the movie, explaining it to Trever and how weird it was and it was great.Who would have thought it was actually Action Jackson that got dragged down like that... Can't remember was he a good guy or a bad guy? Only remember I was a little sad. Striking imagery though.I'd have to say as well as a side note that even though there might be a part of me that does, I believe I do not want to see this movie again for the risk of ruining the magic.