cult film freak: TREAT WILLIAMS IN THE ITALIAN IMPORT 'NIGHT OF THE SHARKS'

Written by James M. Tate / 6/13/2023 / No comments / action , antonio fargas , christopher connelly , eighties , exploitation , italian import , janet agren , john steiner , mobster , neo noir , nina soldano , sal borgese , shark , stelvio cipriani , thriller , tonino ricci

TREAT WILLIAMS IN THE ITALIAN IMPORT 'NIGHT OF THE SHARKS'

6/13/2023 | No comment

Treat Williams and Janet Agren in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS Year: 1988 Rating: ***

Extremely low-budget imported Italian exploitation involving one of the most familiar potboiler plot-lines: a careless, flaky sibling (in this case younger brother) and their inevitable, semi-deserved death from being involved with the seedy crime world to begin with — thus dragging their family into a proverbial whirlwind...

Herein a vengeful, tropical-shark-hunting older bro Treat Williams (with sidekick Antonio Fargas, priest Christopher Connelly and love-interest Janet Agren), whose balmy turf is encroached by killers... either the dorsal-finned kind (the deadliest shark actually plays intentionally goading mind-games) or those wearing cheap hoodlum suits... providing danger from the blood-soaked ocean into a machine-gunned jungle...

Treat Williams credited for NIGHT OF THE SHARK

Throwback to the prior decade's indie programmers combined with what was then technologically modern: the blackmailing brother had damning evidence not on the usual spy-genre microfilm, but something called a CD...

Making NIGHT OF THE SHARKS a deliberately progressed old school thriller beyond what the adventurous title randomly attempts... albeit usually during daylight... and with a synthesizer score by iconic Italian composer Stelvio Cipriani under a similar MIAMI VICE-influence of director Tonino Ricci, NIGHT OF THE SHARKS aka LA NOTTE DEGIL SQUALI (whether on land or sea or foam) is decent-enough ninety-minute time-filler.

Treat Williams in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

Treat Williams in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Antonio Fargas

Treat Williams in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Christopher Connelly

Treat Williams in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Antonio Fargas

Treat Williams in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

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Antonio Fargas in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Nina Soldano

Janet Agren in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

Treat Williams in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

Antonio Fargas in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Nina Soldano

From NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

Treat Williams in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

RIP Treat Williams in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Nina Soldano

NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Nina Soldano AND TREAT WILLIAMS

Antonio Fargas in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Treat Williams

Villain John Steiner in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

Gangster moll Marjorie Manushaw in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

Sal Borgese in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS

Sal Borgese in NIGHT OF THE SHARKS with Janet Agren

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