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Omoo-Omoo the Shark God is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 9 june 1949 with Ron Randell
Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949)
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Add to a movie listOmoo-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.
Actors
Ron Randell
(Jeff Garland)
Trevor Bardette
(Capt. Roger Guy)
Pedro de Cordoba
(Chief Tari)
Richard Benedict
(Mate Richards)
Joseph Kenneth Shovlin
('Chips')
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