Killer Shark (1950)

Director
Budd Boetticher

Main cast
Roddy McDowall; Laurette Luez; Roland Winters; Edward Norris; Rick Vallin

Genres
Adventure

Description
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are badly injured, he tries to make up for it by rounding up another crew and going back out on the hunt. However, things don't turn out quite the way he planned.


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