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Burt Reynolds, Arthur Kennedy, Manuel Alvarado

Troma Studios' 35th anniversary reissue of the 1969 Samuel Fuller film Shark highlights the raw materials that made Burt Reynolds a movie star. This movie is a treasure hunt/double-cross/adven...( read more  read more... )ture story set in Northern Africa. The sharks are both real (a stunt man was killed filming one of the underwater scenes) and metaphorical as evidenced by the behavior of Reynolds's character and his co-stars, Arthur Kennedy and Sylvia Pinal. Reynolds stars as Kane, a gun smuggler who loses his stash and goes on the take for a quick buck. Kennedy and Pinal share Reynolds's desperation as they have trouble rounding up locals to help with Kennedy's "research" after a shark attacks and kills a young local diver. The double-crosses lead up to a climactic underwater crescendo. Overall, the film is a basic adventure story that will appeal to Reynolds's current camp appeal. The DVD print quality is poor in most of the land scenes, though the water scenes are quite good. This version of the film includes a number of Troma extras such as interviews and typical self-promotional Troma Studio videos. --Brian Saltzman

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R, 1 hr. 32 min.

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Release Date: January 1, 1970

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DVD Release Date: June 29, 2004

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Flixster Reviews (41)

  • hugonar
    November 2, 2007
    hugonar
    Classified as a classic = Interested.
  • FlyingSolo2009
    October 30, 2007
    FlyingSolo2009
    Burt Reynolds - enough said!
  • tbrestrange
    April 14, 2007
    tbrestrange
    I got scared the first time i saw it!
  • micc98
    February 5, 2007
    micc98
    a different kind of shark....
  • skuttiskutt
    December 29, 2006
    skuttiskutt
    it's really unreal.. xD but really... it's not scary at all...
  • brianpark08
    December 10, 2006
    brianpark08
    I don't really have anything positive to say about this movie, so I will just leave it at that.
  • mrshadow73
    September 9, 2006
    mrshadow73
    un classico di spielberg

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