Starring: Burt Reynolds, Arthur Kennedy, Barry Sullivan, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Lucero, and Carlos Berry as “Runt”

Everyone!!! Out of the August water! Drones sight SHARK! swimming in Brooklyn – and The Deuce has the footage!!

Brawny bad-boy braggart gets his illegal gun-running ‘nads caught (and nearly blown to bits!) between a rock and a hard place and opts to join up with a shady “Professor” and his dalliance-prone “daughter” for some deep-sea shenanigans searching shipwrecks for some elusive “shark proteins”??!!?? Wherein both “gun”-running and “shark proteins” are perhaps but euphemisms for more suspect, hence, more profitable, hence, more dangerous doings!!??!! And bolstering this bevy of desperate desperadoes – a drunkard of a “Doc” and the trickster tyke “terrible” raffishly referred to as “Runt” – the whole hot-house stew of backstabbing crew set sail for a sweaty, smokey, sun-baked dip into a sea of Sudanese skullduggery… with REAL SHARKS!! ACTUAL REAL SHARKS!!

Famously touted in the pages of Life magazine for the real-life death-by-shark-attack of one of its scuba-diving stunt-men (“WITH 2 PAGES OF COLOR PICTURES”!!) – and generally derided by director and critics alike (due to some dastardly production-studio-done re-editing and re-branding of Fuller’s delivered finished film, formerly called – after Reynold’s one-named character – “Caine“) – but the brush of the fiery Fuller can still be felt… with its filmmaking that furrows in both fluidity and brute force… Suspenses suspended – terror truncated – letting “life” breeze into the fore… with REAL SHARKS!!

The loud-mouthed louts all brylcreemed and jeaned up for 42nd’s Anco Theatre‘s “top-billed” biker bonanza – Rebel Rousers – were perhaps too needing of 2 wheels firmly gripped to terra firma to venture a ride on the SHARK! tide… but The Deuce gets its kicks in the deep water – where danger lurks!!