About this episode

The episode discusses the recovery and analysis of the 1979 film The Shark Hunter directed by Enzo G. Castellari.

This week we're heading to Mexico by way of Italy in the recently recovered Sharksploitation adventure film, The Shark Hunter from director Enzo G. Castellari. In 1979 Enzo Doria got his hands on a script that he was so excited to produce that he called up Italian superstar, Franco Nero and asked him what he was doing right this minute and if he'd like to drop literally everything and make a movie. But when scripts vanished, the cast and crew had to make a movie based on their broad memories of the original story and we'd be lying if we didn't think they did a pretty good job of it. Severin Films bent over backwards in 2025 to recover what materials they could find and released the best possible scan of the last remaining 35mm prints of The Shark Hunter, a movie that was dangerously close to disappearing forever. In The Shark Hunter we find a sun burned and bloodshot American expat living seaside in Mexico, making a living by leaping into the ocean to kill every shark he sees, which happens to be a lot of sharks. But this is just a cover for an operation to recover a sunken safe in a crashed airplane. He teams up with a local buddy and will have to outsmart a gangster and a rival…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan White, David White

Topics covered

• Sharksploitation
• Film recovery
• Adventure film
• Italian cinema
• 1970s films

Keywords

• The Shark Hunter
• Enzo G. Castellari
• Franco Nero
• Severin Films
• shark hunting
• 1979 film
• Italian cinema

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Severin Films

Books & works: The Shark Hunter

Places: Mexico, Italy

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