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Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God (1949)

Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God poster
Original title
Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
Directed by
Leon Leonard
Genre
drama film, exploitation film
Country
United States
Runtime
58 min
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A ship's crew steals pearls from a sacred island shrine. Then a series of strange and bad things happen to them.

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What happens

Omoo-Omoo the Shark God is a 1949 American exploitation film directed by Leon Leonard. Loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Omoo, it is about the curses that befall a ship following the removal of pearls from an island shrine. The film is also known as The Shark God in the United Kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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