Although "Satan's Triangle" had more spook-factor about it, I cared not one jot about any of the characters, especially the annoying Coast Guard man played by Doug McClure. "Beyond The Bermuda Triangle" at least has a couple of characters I could feel sorry for, in Dana Plato's character who loses her Mom to the Bermuda Triangle, and dear old Fred MacMurray who loses his bride-to-be. At one point, the film appears to go a bit over the top with cast members disappearing daily, but then, history says that this HAS happened, eg boats/aircraft going missing, then the search teams following them into the unknown.
This TVM is a reasonable time passer, and kind of spans the generations as the Golden Age Fred MacMurray ("Double Indemnity") shares the screen with a very young Dana Plato ("Diff'rent Strokes"), just starting out. Sadly, Sam Groom did very little, other than drive a speedboat or a car, and the romantic filler between him and the equally wooden Donna Mills was just that, unnecessary padding. That falderdash could have been left out, and in its place, MacMurray and the Coast Guard going toe-to-toe over the reasons for the disappearing boats and planes....the USCG man tells Fred that there IS NO "Triangle" but his personal investigations lead Fred to believe otherwise.
He believes that there's a door to another dimension and that his wife-to-be went through it, leaving her sailing vessel behind, intact, totally undamaged. With the tacit blessing of Mills & Groom (there's romance!) dear old Fred takes his multi-million dollar vessel out to the Triangle looking for "the door" and the Coast Guard find the yacht, undamaged and Fred "missing" leaving the viewer to decide reasons. A solid 7/10 in spite of Groom and Mills.
This TVM is a reasonable time passer, and kind of spans the generations as the Golden Age Fred MacMurray ("Double Indemnity") shares the screen with a very young Dana Plato ("Diff'rent Strokes"), just starting out. Sadly, Sam Groom did very little, other than drive a speedboat or a car, and the romantic filler between him and the equally wooden Donna Mills was just that, unnecessary padding. That falderdash could have been left out, and in its place, MacMurray and the Coast Guard going toe-to-toe over the reasons for the disappearing boats and planes....the USCG man tells Fred that there IS NO "Triangle" but his personal investigations lead Fred to believe otherwise.
He believes that there's a door to another dimension and that his wife-to-be went through it, leaving her sailing vessel behind, intact, totally undamaged. With the tacit blessing of Mills & Groom (there's romance!) dear old Fred takes his multi-million dollar vessel out to the Triangle looking for "the door" and the Coast Guard find the yacht, undamaged and Fred "missing" leaving the viewer to decide reasons. A solid 7/10 in spite of Groom and Mills.