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...investigation in Washington, spread panic through Japan and strained U.S.-Japanese relations. The latest bad news came from a Japanese fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru (Fortunate Dragon), which churned into its home port of Yaizu last week with more than 16,500 lbs. of radioactive tuna and shark and 23 terrified crewmen. They had reason to be frightened: all had been burned by radioactive ash, and the most severely injured men were showing a telltale decline in their white-corpuscle count, which, if not arrested, will inevitably kill them...
...March i explosion and announced that the U.S. now has a deliv erable thermonuclear weapon. <| The AEC enlarged the danger zone around the atomic-test site in the Marshalls to 20 times its original area. ^ The Food & Drug Administration ordered a Geiger check on all shiploads of tuna and shark coming into West Coast ports from the test area...
...picture fails to achieve much originality, it is not because Terry Moore and the octopus don't try, or because Gilbert Roland and Robert Wagner aren't brave enough to meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty...
...trouble, he insisted, is in the design of automobiles, and he showed horror pictures to prove it, with front-seat passengers most often the victims. Automakers, he said, should pad the dashboard and get rid of the face-smashing projections which now make it as deadly as a shark's-tooth club...
...pains she is pursued by a shark in the service of the Russians (James Mason) who gives her a chase that is all the more stimulating because she never knows whether he is after her neck or just after her pretty face. In due course, the shark proves human and takes the bait Ingenue Bloom only too happily offers. The Russians rush off after them both on just the kind of joyride that Reed likes best to give his camera-the chase through a great city by night. Bloom and Mason hole up at last in a dingy East zone...