| p>Shark (Sam Fuller)
Burt Reynolds plays
Kane, a smooth, fast talking gun-runner who loses his shipment of arms and
becomes stranded in a small port city on the Mediterranean. Finding himself hard
up for cash, he tries to scam his way into out of town, but to no avail. Kane's
luck begins to change when he runs into the sexy Anna (Silvia Pinal), a
seductive siren of the sea, who propositions Kane to work for her and her
partner, the Professor (Arthur Kennedy), diving in the shark infested waters off
of the coast, supposedly for scientific research.
Burt Reynolds, gives the most
amazing performance of his young, pre-moustache career, in the role which
launched him as the sex symbol he remains to this day. The combination of the
brilliant direction by Samuel Fuller and the specialized and dangerous stunt
diving work with real man-eating sharks - which claimed the life of one of the
divers during the shoot - makes this film more frighteningly real and original
than Steven Spielberg's box-office smash, JAWS.
- NTSC Region 1
- Special on-location at
Sundance introduction to 'Shark' by Lloyd Kaufman
- Discussion of Samuel
Fuller with Jerome Henry Rudes, co-writer with Samuel Fuller of 'Third
Face,' a biography of the director
- Lloyd Kaufman interviews
director Vincent Sherman, remembering Samuel Fuller and a discussion on the
Hollywood backlist
- Lloyd Kaufman interviews
producer/director Eric Sherman on Samuel Fuller
- Interview with Lloyd
Kaufman on Samuel Fuller
- Today's youth evaluates
Samuel Fuller
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