Tiger Shark (film)

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Tiger Shark
Directed by Howard Hawks
Written by Houston Branch (story)
Wells Roots
Starring Edward G. Robinson
Richard Arlen
Zita Johann
Music by Bernhard Kaun (uncredited)
Cinematography Tony Gaudio
Editing by Thomas Pratt
Distributed by First National Pictures
Release date(s) September 22, 1932
Running time 77 min.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English/Portuguese
IMDb profile

Tiger Shark is a 1932 film by Howard Hawks. It was made the same year as Scarface, which is widely acknowledged to be the director's best film of the early sound era.

The plot concerns a one-handed tuna fisherman named Mike (Edward G. Robinson) whose wife falls for the man he lost his hand saving. The general storyline was repeated several times in subsequent films, most notably Manpower with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, in which Robinson plays the same role, only as a power line worker.

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Films directed by Howard Hawks
1920s
The Road to Glory • Fig Leaves • The Cradle Snatchers • Paid to Love • A Girl in Every Port • Fazil • The Air Circus • Trent's Last Case
1930s
The Dawn Patrol • The Criminal Code • La Foule hurle • Scarface • The Crowd Roars • Tiger Shark • Today We Live • The Prizefighter and the Lady • Viva Villa! • Twentieth Century • Barbary Coast • Ceiling Zero • Sutter's Gold • The Road to Glory • Come and Get It • Bringing Up Baby • Only Angels Have Wings
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