Using development versions enables you to use the latest and greatest improvements to the project. The Day of the Dolphin is a 1973 American science-fiction thriller film directed by Mike Nichols and starring George C. Scott. Dr Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. This movie is slow, poorly written and the acting is ridiculous. The Day of the Dolphin soundtrack from 1974, composed by Georges Delerue. Development versions are released every time a developer makes a change to Dolphin, several times every day! As for the acting, the only cast member to earn an acting award for the movie was Alpha the dolphin who was awarded the Best Animal Actor Award in the 24th Patsy Awards. Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry team up again (after collaborating on The Graduate and Catch-22) for this adaptation of Robert Merle's best-selling adventure novel concerning dolphins who become pawns in a plot to kill the president. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited vocabulary. The same material might have been more interesting in the hands of a less ambitious director, who could have gone for suspense, action and laughs. Movies. This beautiful production of an exciting adventure was executed by one of the only creative teams that could pull it off: writer Buck Henry and director Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Catch-22). 28.152 Partidas jugadas, ¡juega tú ahora! It stars the great George C Scott (of all people) as a scientist who finds himself confronting `Frankenstein' moments over his cetan experiment. Merle's The Day of the Dolphin is often compared to Karel Capek's War with the Newts.The first half of the book, with the idea of dolphins capable of human speech, indeed shares a similar revolutionary, world shaking vision as the czech dystopian classic. 1973 Directed by Mike Nichols. Nominated for an Academy Award , The Day of the Dolphin stars George C. Scott as a scientist who trains dolphins to speak, only to find them kidnapped for use in a vicious assassination plot.