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A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.


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.

Roddy McDowall
Ted White

Laurette Luez
Maria

Roland Winters
Jeffrey White

Edward Norris
Ramon

Rick Vallin
Joe

Douglas Fowley
Louie Bracado

Nacho Galindo
Maestro

Ralf Harolde
Slattery

Dickie Moore
Jonesy

Ted Hecht
Gano
Killer Shark is a adventure film released in 1950 exploring themes of shark. Directed by Budd Boetticher, it stars Roddy McDowall, Laurette Luez, Roland Winters. 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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