Often considered hard-bitten director Sam Fuller's weakest work, the 1969 Shark (aka Man-Eater) starred Burt Reynolds as a smarmy gun-runner who runs afoul of treasure hunters in a Sudanese coastal village (actually Colima, Mexico). Fuller disowned the film after the producers hired hack Rafael Portillo (Midnight Dolls) to recut it under the supervision of schlockmeister Herbert L. Strock (The Crawling Hand). Fuller's trademark cynicism took the biggest hit, though Excelsior Pictures eagerly used the actual death during filming of stuntman Jose Marco, the victim of a Great White that managed to elude a safety barrier, as a promotional gimmick in a Life magazine spread. With Arthur Kennedy (Emmanuelle On Taboo Island), Barry Sullivan (Pyro...The Thing Without A Face), and Luis Buñuel star Silvia Pinal (The Exterminating Angel).
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