Tiger Shark (1932)

Mike is a great tuna fisherman though he lost a hand to a shark years earlier saving Pipes Boley. Now Mike is happily married to Quita and doesn't notice that Pipes and Quita are falling ... See full summary »

Director:

Howard Hawks

Writers:

Houston Branch (original story "Tuna"), Wells Root (screen play),

Stars:

Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Edward G. Robinson	...	Mike Mascarenhas
Richard Arlen	...	Pipes Boley
Zita Johann	...	Quita Silva
Leila Bennett	...	Muggsey
J. Carrol Naish	...	Tony (as J. Carroll Naish)
Vince Barnett	...	Fishbone
William Ricciardi	...	Manuel Silva

Storyline

Mike is a great tuna fisherman though he lost a hand to a shark years earlier saving Pipes Boley. Now Mike is happily married to Quita and doesn't notice that Pipes and Quita are falling for each other.

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Plot Keywords:

shark | tuna | fisherman | tuna processing | ship wreck | 

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Taglines:

Jungle holds no terrors for these bloodthirsty white-belled cannibals!

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Portuguese

Release Date:

24 September 1932 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tiger-Hai

Filming Locations:

Hawaii, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

First National Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Version of Bengal Tiger (1936)

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Soundtracks

"My Wild Irish Rose"
(1899) (uncredited)
Music by Chauncey Olcott
Played when Mike is drunk at the wedding reception

User Reviews

"They Settle Everything"

Edward G. Robinson plays a one handed fisherman making his living on the California coast. Even with a hook for a left hand he does pretty good in his line of work. But that steel hook isn't exactly quail bait.

One of his crew is lost to the sharks during a voyage and he brings the news home to his daughter Zita Johann. She's back home after having run away from the fishing life and has had a pretty rough go of it.

Though she doesn't love him, Johann marries Robinson and then another Robinson's crew, Richard Arlen comes in to complicate things.

Other reviewers have mentioned the gazillion times Warner Brothers recycled the plot of Tiger Shark in other locales. But actually Robinson had done a version of They Knew What They Wanted back in 1930 entitled A Lady to Love. That's the real origin of this plot.

The fishing boat scenes are realistically handled and the principal players do a good job. But this story has been told better and told better by Mr. Robinson himself.