Great White
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Genre: Horror, Natural horror films
Year: 1982
Country: Italy
Language: English Language
Starring: James Franciscus, Vic Morrow, Micaela Pignatelli, Joshua Sinclair, Giancarlo Prete, Stefania Girolami Goodwin
Great White (a.k.a. The Last Shark) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Enzo G. Castellari and starring James Franciscus and Vic Morrow. The film is extremely similar to Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
An enormous and angry 35-foot Great White Shark begins attacking humans when they build a beach just for swimmers by Port Harbor, a coastal town. Despite repeated attacks, the mayor does nothing to stop it as he doesn't want tourists to hear about it and stop coming. Enter the heroes: Peter Benton (James Franciscus), a novelist who wrote a book about sharks, and Ron Hamer (Vic Morrow), an old seadog who has a personal grudge against this shark and wants it dead. They sail into the middle of the ocean to save stranded people and stop the monster. Eventually, Ron drowns, but Peter, remembering the explosives inside his wetsuit, feeds Ron's corpse to the shark and ignites it, blowing the shark to pieces. Peter swims to Port Harbor and returns home.
Universal Pictures sued to have the release of this movie in North America blocked, accusing the makers of Great White of plagiarism of Jaws. The studio won the case, and the movie was pulled from North American theaters shortly after its
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