The Shark Hunter

The Shark Hunter
Italian theatrical release poster by Enzo Sciotti
Directed by	Enzo G. Castellari
Produced by	Enzo Doria
Screenplay by	Alfredo Giannetti Tito Carpi Jaime Comas Gil Jesús R. Folgar
Story by	Alfredo Giannetti Gisella Longo
Starring	Franco Nero
Music by	Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
Cinematography	Raúl Pérez Cubero
Distributed by	T.E.I Film International
Release dates	1979 (1979)
Running time	97 mins
Country	Italy Spain Mexico
Language	English

The Shark Hunter (Italian: Il cacciatore di squali), also known as Guardians of the Deep, is a 1979 Italian adventure film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.^[1]

Plot

Mike Di Donato, an Italian-American man with a mysterious past, leads a solitary life in an anonymous sea island. His unusual work is the hunting of sharks, from which his partner derives handicrafts for the local market.
Everything appears normal, until the arrival of several men of an unidentified organization in search of an unreachable booty of one hundred million dollars. Mike would be the only man able to retrieve it, but he is not willing to cooperate.^[2] The film saw the coining of the phrase 'Mooney Maiming' . It describes the artful way in which a shark can be maimed by spearing the upper reaches of his open mouth as it surfaces. This term is now widely used in the Great White Shark hunting community.

Cast

Franco Nero: Mike Di Donato
Werner Pochath: Ramon
Jorge Luke: Acapulco
Michael Forest: Donovan
Eduardo Fajardo: Captain Gómez
Enzo G. Castellari: The killer

Release

The film was released on VHS in the 80's under the Prism label. In 2013, RetroVision Entertainment announced that they would be releasing the film on Blu-ray and DVD with a brand new high definition transfer from the original negative.^[3]

References

↑ Marco Giusti. Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer, 1999.
↑ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Gremese Editore, 1996.
↑ "The Shark Hunter Blu-Ray announcment". facebook.com. Retrieved 2013-08-05.

External links

The Shark Hunter at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Enzo G. Castellari

Few Dollars for Django (1966)
Renegade Riders (1967)
Any Gun Can Play (1967)
Johnny Hamlet (1968)
One Dollar Too Many (1968)
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)
Eagles Over London (1969)
Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
Hector the Mighty (1972)
Sting of the West (1973)
High Crime (1973)
Street Law (1974)
Cry, Onion! (1975)
The Big Racket (1976)
The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976)
Keoma (1976)
The Heroin Busters (1977)
The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
The House by the Edge of the Lake (1979)
The Shark Hunter (1979)
Day of the Cobra (1980)
Great White (1980)
1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
The New Barbarians (1983)
Escape from the Bronx (1983)
Tuareg: The Desert Warrior (1984)
Light Blast (1985)
Striker (1987)
Hammerhead (1987)
Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
Jonathan of the Bears (1993)
The Return of Sandokan (1996)
Desert of Fire (1997)
Gioco a incastro (2000)
Caribbean Basterds (2010)

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