![]() ![]() STEPHEN KING'S OTHER HORROR ANTHOLOGY FILM 'CAT'S.ALICE KRIGE & BRIAN KRAUSE IN STEPHEN KING'S 'SLEE.It a fulfilling experience at sea, deeply rooted even while in shallow And while it's the epitome of an uneven picture,Īfter a few viewings the jigsaw pieces together, and you may just find Tension is more palpable between the four cohorts than the nine or soĬaptives and captors. Wilde and his bitter employee Kotto, forced not to smoke on deck. Treasure hunting flick that, like TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, has the Song titled "Money, Money"), seems like a cop-out shortct but looksĬreative and moves the story smoothly forward despite hitting a deadĬornel Wilde in SHARK'S TREASURE with Yaphet KottoĪdventure during the climax but the most fun for the viewer take placeĭuring the first half where SHARK'S TREASURE is a bonafide oceanic The man's acting peaks during these 11th hour moments.įew scenes, using literal inserted photographs of the treasure huntĪfter the initial discovery has been established (to the cool yet campy The long game, getting inside the head of the only vulnerable convict. Wilde himself, to make things watchable again, bringing back the leanĮnergy from his Film Noir days, remaining cool and calm while playing Visible so we don't really feel completely out there like in JAWS.īizarre sadistic fight occurs between the head baddie and his abusedīoytoy, things get so bizarre it's up to the film's writer/director, Unlike Steven Spielberg's request to never show land, during this ThirdĪct, while the boys are hand-tied and threatened, stretches of land are Suffering through many overlong scenes to get to the proverbial gold. Overall, this forgotten lost TREASURE is a decent yarn despite In a sort of underwater gallows from the floaty balloons above. Turn into intrepid harpoon wielding hunters, doing what some viewers may findĬruel and pointless when it's really just plain necessary.Ĭornel Wilde and John Neilson in SHARK'S TREASUREĭark, violent and downright morbid is a gothic row of dead sharks hooked from ropes, hanging Underwater where plot means little compared to the sport of "sharking," With a slash of their tails, they guard their territory in rapid numbers while the men, harder to discern Never have so many sharks looked so pointed,įeisty and mean, and all in their natural habitat as opposed to cheating The legendary menace of the deep: A horde of Tiger Sharks as opposed to Pulpy fortune hunting programmer, looks as good as any documentary on Given credit as this particular shark picture, while feeling like a So Al Giddings, the underwater photographer, must be Killing them with spears (in scenes so callus and calculated, it would not allowed on film today), and a good deal of suspense relies on how quick those creatures are. ![]() Succeeded in finally funneling-up the treasure, are busy dodging sharks by either outsmarting or Players, who, minutes earlier, were so full of life having just (a hybrid of DELIVERANCE and SHORT EYES). Involving the most bizarre and sadistic homosexual anti-romance occurs Sheepish FROGS grandson David Gilliam plays the put-upon blond punk And taking two to tango, Ray Milland's passive, His bitch in a Texas prison where they'd escaped.Īn actor, Osmond's turned up as a goofball heavy in Disney movies, which this isĪnything but. Is a tall, mustached, balding Spanish Alpha Male, cursed within aĬreepy, bullying love affair with a young blond man you just know was Hits the three-fourths mark, the villains arrive: a band of escapedĬonvicts, five of them, though herein only two need naming: Cliff Osmond Well that's the ship's party, and before TREASURE HEAVEN, ROAD HOUSE and THE DEVIL'S HAIRPIN, it takes a talented Yaphet Kotto, as Ben, along with his Vietnam vet buddy Larry, playedīy sporadic BONANZA guest star David Canary, to make the picture more Humphrey Bogart's in HIGH SIERRA followed by the likes of LEAVE HER TO Wilde had been a very good actor since playing the talky inside-man to Semi-famous fortune hunter boatsman, Jim Carnahan, along with the map'sīearer, a young man played by TERROR HOUSE actor John Neilson. Killer fish seems to be intentionally guarding a treasure of goldenĬoins at a location that takes over half the film led by Wilde's Title: SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Rating: ****Ĭornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in theĮrnest Hemingway tradition of the TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT style, centers on ![]()
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