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Steel Sharks (1997)

Steel Sharks poster
Directed by
Rodney McDonald
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Navy SEALs are captured and taken onto an Iranian submarine. They must escape to survive.

tensegrittyconfinedaction-packedsuspensefullow-budgetdirectserious

What happens

Steel Sharks is a 1997 American direct-to-video action film directed by Rodney McDonald and starring Gary Busey, Billy Dee Williams and Billy Warlock. It concerns a group of Navy SEALs who are captured and taken aboard an Iranian submarine from which they must escape to survive. The film was released straight-to-video. Several scenes involving Navy helicopter, ship, and command footage from this film were used in the production of Crash Dive, Freedom Strike, Counter Measures and Agent Red. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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