Tiger Shark

1932
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1h 17m

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Edward G. Robinson, Zita Johann, and J. Carrol Naish in Tiger Shark (1932)

A tuna fisherman marries a woman who doesn't love him.A tuna fisherman marries a woman who doesn't love him.A tuna fisherman marries a woman who doesn't love him.

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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

Maurice Black

Jean Fernandez - a Shipwrecked Crewman
(uncredited)

Sheila Bromley

'Red'
(uncredited)

Wong Chung

Chinese Laundryman
(uncredited)

Edwin Maxwell

Doctor
(uncredited)

Toshia Mori

Oriental Lady Barber
(uncredited)

Henry Otho

Crewman
(uncredited)

Inez Palange

Mike's Neighbor
(uncredited)

Pedro Regas

Crewman
(uncredited)

Joe Roig

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

Hector V. Sarno

Crewman
(uncredited)

Harry Semels

Crewman
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Quita wears traditional Portuguese attire for her wedding.

Goofs
When Quita tells Mike to leave her alone after being informed of her father's death, he responds twice with "yeah, all right". But Robinson as Mike drops the Portuguese accent he uses for the role and uses a regular American accent.

Crazy credits
Opening Card: San Diego

Connections
Featured in Sharksploitation (2023)

Soundtracks
Abdulla Bulbul Amir
(1877) (uncredited)
Written by William Percy French
Sung by Richard Arlen and members of the crew

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.