Shark!
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
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"Samuel Fuller was an acclaimed and highly respected director, so obviously when he himself thought one of his movies was pure rubbish; the public opinion got heavily influenced by that. Fuller completely disowned "Shark!", allegedly because the producers edited the finished product too heavily and used a tragic accident on the set as sensational promotion material, and hence it's widely regarded as a cinematic failure. Maybe if Fuller had stated that this was the personal favorite of his own repertoire, "Shark!" could have been a classic? In spite of its many, many sho..."
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According to a 1968 "Life" Magazine story, Jose Marco, Burt Reynolds's stunt double, was in the water in scuba gear alongside a subdued bull shark when a great white slipped through the nets protecting the area. It charged at the camera crew before launching at Marco and disemboweling him where he swam. Crew members tried to steer the shark away from Marco with spears, but the animal was undeterred. Marco was taken to a hospital in nearby Manzanillo, Mexico, where he died two days later. However, a detailed investigation revealed no official record of the attack, no record of a stuntman named Jose Marco, and no hospital records of the incident. "Life" had no comment.
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A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.