Orca
1977
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1h 32min
• Adventure, Horror
From director Michael Anderson (Around the World in Eighty Days) and screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) comes a gripping and terrifying tale of man versus beast. Starring screen legends Richard Harris (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, The Field) and Charlotte Rampling (Melancholia, Swimming Pool), Orca: The Killer Whale is a thrilling and ferocious action adventure of mythical proportions. Initially on the hunt for a great white shark, the obsessive Captain Nolan (Harris) harpoons and kills a pregnant whale and her unborn foetus. Unbeknown to Nolan the atrocity was witnessed by her mate, a gigantic Orca killer whale. Intent on revenge the Orca begins to terrorise the nearby fishing village on a rampage of death and destruction. Only Nolan can bring an end to the devastation. He must face his enemy from the deep in a deadly quest that will take him and his crew to the edge of earth and towards a destiny drenched in spilled blood.
