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Word: carchariid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...Commander Victor Mature with some petulance as this picture begins, "got lousy table manners." It seems that some unmannerly man-eaters dined on the commander's crew when their destroyer sank in the early days of World War II, and now Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice seem to have much effect on the brutes. However...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

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