There are a few decent moments in this colorful adventure that was a brief return to 3-D. The credits indicate the use of the gimmicky effect, but not much else, in a standard melodrama of greed and lust. She may have been pushing 40, but Joanne Dru is as enticing as Marilyn and Sophia and Liz in her tight bathing suits, involved in the search for gold off the coast of Majorca. Along with the ship's caretaker and sole crew member, Asher Dann, she's aboard with gold seekers Mark Stevens and the bullying Robert Strauss, a character so vile that any self-respecting shark would have spit it out upon attempting to swallow.

The underwater sequences are beautifully filmed, and there's an encounter with the Portuguese man of war that's pretty scary. But really very little happens, and that's adult adventure especially when you're waiting for something to pop off at you in 3D and that doesn't occur. Dru pretty much is the only decent acting in the film, although Dann's character seems to be the only man aboard with any scruples, even though his pass at Dru is presented awkwardly and out of step from his previous actions. Jean-Pierre Kérien is seen recurringly throughout as the ship's real owner, mainly in phone calls, indicating that Dann wasn't as honest as the script insinuated. Pretty much a let down, and frequently just dull.

September Storm is obviously one of those kind of movies they just don't make anymore. In the 1950s and early 60s, the ingredients for an adventure movie were an exotic locale, a handsome hero, a sassy and pretty girl and a couple of bad guys. This movie has all these ingredients and they are mostly put to good use. The story itself is simple: two shady characters convince a Majorcan sailor to use his boss's yacht to recover sunken gold. A lovely American model is thrown in to keep things interesting. The voyage leads to cross and double-cross as the men quarrel over the money and the "dame". Underwater scenes are actually filmed very well considering the period, although the use of a rubber shark is unconvincing. There are several cringey moments of sexism in the dialog that are reflective of the period. Perhaps the most outstanding is when the bad guy says something to the effect of "Why do I gotta cook? - we gotta woman".

There is some glaring unevenness in the characters. One moment they are literally trying to kill one another and in the following scene they're all one big happy crew. The ending is kind of open-ended and a tad unsatisfying but at least nobody got killed.

This potboiler about a search for Spanish coins is very shallow, with little drama, but it boasts superb 3-D photography and stunning underwater scenery. Mark Stevens and his sidekick Robert Strauss convince Joanne Dru about the treasure and they rope a young man who serves as a custodian of sorts for a wealthy man's yacht. The storm scenes are the best part of the movie, and the shark scenes aren't bad either.