Outsider (1969)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Outsider shark |
| Original title | Shark! |
| Country of production | USA , Mexico |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Samuel Fuller |
| script | Samuel Fuller , John Kingsbridge |
| production | Mark Cooper , Skip Steloff |
| music | Rafael Moroyoqui |
| camera | Raúl Martinez Solares |
| cut | Carlos Savage |
| occupation | |
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Outsider (working title: Caine , later renamed Shark ! , re-release under the title Maneater ; German reference title also Hai ) is an action film from 1969 by Samuel Fuller with Burt Reynolds in the US-American-Mexican co-production Main role. The script is based on the novel His Bones Are Coral by Victor Canning .
action
The American arms smuggler Caine is being hunted in Sudan by the authorities and the military. In a small port town on the Red Sea , he meets the alcoholic compatriot Doc, who informs him that the police chief Barok is on his trail. Caine's only way to escape is to flee by boat.
Dr. Mallare and Anna own a suitable boat. Caine can be hired by them to take part in an expedition to collect fish samples. It soon turns out that boat owners are more interested in a sunken ship or its gold cargo worth two million US dollars. Caine forces Mallare and Anna to partner with him.
The next day, Caine and Mallare open the hull. They take the gold bars to the boat. At the same time Anna attracts sharks with bloody pieces of fish. The sharks attack the men, Mallare is killed. Caine can save herself and overwhelm Anna. The chief of police appears and wants to steal the gold from Caine. Caine can throw Barok into the shark-infested water. Anna comes to and forces Caine to get into the police boat. She wants to flee with her own boat. She does not know that the ballast tank valves are open and that her boat will sink.
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film about the film: “Hard action film. Only a few scenes reveal the formal mastery of Sam Fuller, who once again formulates his thesis of humans as ruthless “sharks”. Otherwise mostly a routine product. "
background
The film was shot in Manzanillo in the Mexican state of Colima on the Pacific coast. The shooting took place in April and May 1967.
During the filming with the sharks in the open sea, the animals were immobilized beforehand with medication. However, this did not work for one animal. It attacked the stuntman José Marco and killed him live in front of the camera. The production team exploited the incident commercially, naming the film Shark! and used the tagline A Realistic Film Became Too Real! on the movie poster . . Director Fuller then withdrew from the project and wanted to prevent his name from being named as a director, which the producers ignored.
The film premiered in Mexico on September 6, 1969. In the US it appeared a month later. In Germany it was shown for the first time as part of a TV premiere on May 4, 1971 in the program of the broadcaster ARD . In other broadcasts it was also shown under the title Hai . The film then hit German cinemas on January 8, 1982.
Web links
- Outsider in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Outsider. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Sebastian Leber: Disaster Films . In: Der Tagesspiegel from February 2, 2014, page 7
- ↑ Before “Jaws” there was Sam Fuller's “Shark” ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at blogs.artinfo.com, accessed February 3, 2014
- ↑ IMDb Trivia for 'Shark!' , accessed February 3, 2014
