Shark! (film)
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| Directed by | Samuel Fuller |
| Produced by |
José Luis Calderón Mark Cooper Skip Steloff |
| Written by |
Samuel Fuller John Kingsbridge |
| Starring |
Burt Reynolds Arthur Kennedy Manuel Alvarado Carlos Barry Silvia Pinal |
| Music by | Rafael Moroyoqui |
| Cinematography | Raúl Martínez Solares |
| Edited by | Carlos Savage |
| Distributed by | Troma Entertainment |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Shark! (also known as Caine and Maneater) is a 1969 American action film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Burt Reynolds. The film was based on the Victor Canning novel His Bones are Coral with the original screenplay written by Ken Hughes. When Fuller joined the project, he rewrote the script and retitled it Caine.[1]
Plot
Reynolds plays Caine, a gunrunner who becomes stranded in a small port in the Red Sea. He meets a seductive woman who propositions him to dive into shark-infested waters off the coast for scientific research. However, when Caine realizes the woman and her partner are actually treasure hunters, the action starts to heat up both above and below the water.
Production
During production in Mexico in 1967, one of the film's stuntmen was attacked and killed on camera by a shark that was supposed to have been sedated. When the production company used the death to promote the film, (even retitling the film to Shark!)[1] Fuller, who had been arguing with the producers on several major issues relating to the film, quit the production.
When Samuel Fuller finally saw the version that was released to theaters, he said it was so badly butchered he demanded the producers take his name off it.[2] The producers refused.
The film was re-released as Man-Eater by Legacy Entertainment Inc. in 2003.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dombrowski, Lisa (31 March 2008). The films of Samuel Fuller: if you die, I'll kill you!. Wesleyan University Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8195-6866-3. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ↑ "IMDb Trivia for 'Shark!'". Retrieved July 13, 2007.
External links
- Shark! at the Internet Movie Database
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