Orca is a 1977 horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Richard Harris, Will Sampson and Charlotte Rampling. The film was one of a long line of marine-related horror-disaster films that followed the success of 1975's Jaws. In this film, the antagonist is a Killer Whale or Orca.
Robert Towne provided an uncredited script rewrite.
The movie starts with a crew of people working on a boat named Bumpo. L...
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Orca is a 1977 horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Richard Harris, Will Sampson and Charlotte Rampling. The film was one of a long line of marine-related horror-disaster films that followed the success of 1975's Jaws. In this film, the antagonist is a Killer Whale or Orca.
Robert Towne provided an uncredited script rewrite.
The movie starts with a crew of people working on a boat named Bumpo. Led by Captain Nolan (Richard Harris), the crew is looking at a great white shark for a local aquarium, but a scientist named Ken (Robert Carradine) is being targeted by the shark. A killer whale comes and kills the shark, subsequently saving Ken. This switches Nolan's target to the killer whale and whilst he is on the journey with his crew, he tries to capture what he believes to be a male whale, but mistakenly harpoons a pregnant female whale. She tries to commit suicide on the propellers, but Nolan and his crew get the orca on board. Due to...
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