Saturday, December 20, 2008

Omoo-Omoo, The Shark God (1949)

58 minutes in B&W
Other Names: The Shark God

Director(s): Leon Leonard
Writer(s): George D. Green, Leon Leonard

When a sacred jungle idol is violated, the curse of a shark god follows a group of people. After a sea captain (Trevor Bardette) removes black pearls from a sacred native shrine, the curse of the shark god falls upon him and anyone else with whom he comes in contact with, according to the native legend. Disaster strikes everyone in the cast, except for the one person who will survive the curse. Based on the Herman Melville Novel.

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