Film
The Sharkfighters
United States- Director
- Jerry Hopper
- Year
- 1956
FIGHTING THE TERROR OF THE SEAS!
Landing on a small island not far from Havana, Cuba, Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves joins a Navy scientific project engaged in finding an effective shark repellent to help save the lives of WWII military personnel stranded in shark-infested waters. His zeal for completing the project as fast as possible is explained by his having lost a large percentage of his crew to sharks when his ship was sunk by the Japanese. Against the advice of the others on the project, Staves demands that the new repellent be tested on a live subject surrounded by hungry sharks and will allow no one but himself to be the test subject!
Top cast
Victor Mature
Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves
Karen Steele
Martha Staves
James Olson
Ens. Harold Duncan
Philip Coolidge
Lt. Cmdr. Leonard Evans
Claude Akins
Chief 'Gordy' Gordon
Rafael Campos
Carlos
George N. Neise
Cmdr. George Zimmer (as George Neise)
Nathan Yates
Capt. Ruiz
Jesús Hernández
Vincente
Lorin Johns
Self (as M/Sgt. Lorin Johns)
David Westlein
Self (as CPO David Westlein)
Charles Collingwood
Narrator
Directed by
Jerry Hopper
Written by
Art Napoleon, Jo Napoleon, Jonathan Robinson, Lawrence Roman
Produced by
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
