***SPOILERS*** Edward G. Robinson looking as well as talking like a Mexican Bandito then a Portuguese fisherman is "Mighty" Mike Mascarehas the greatest fisherman this side of the Pacific Ocean. Mike who earlier in the movie lost his left hand to a tiger shark who bit it off while he was knocked out trying to rescue his fishing partner Manuel "Manny" Silva, William Ricciardi, who was devoured by a school of sharks tailing his boat. Fully recovered with a hook for a hand, that comes in handy in scratching his back, Mike goes to see Manny's daughter Quita,Zita Johann, to tell hr the terrible news about her dad ending up as shark bait and never, in being lost at sea, to be seen again even at his own funeral! It's then that Cupid's arrow strikes Mike through the heart and he falls madly in love with the pretty Quita even though she tells him she's not in love with him. This doesn't seem to matter to Mike who feels that he can win over Quita's love after he marries her and shows her what a great fisherman, as well as lover, that he really is.
Finally giving into Mike and marrying him it soon turns out that Mike's good friend, who saved Mike from bring eaten alive by sharks, All-American looking Pipes Boley,Richard "Dick" Arlen,gets Quita's attention and despite Pipes doing his best to avoid it the two fall in love with each other. It's later that Mike recovering from a drunken binge finds both Pipes and Quita in each other arms that he plans to do both lovers in before his next planned, with Quita joining in,fishing trip!
****SPOILERS****Mad and drunk with revenge Mike attacks and knocks out Pipes and plans to feed him to the sharks with the crewmen on his boat locked up in their cabins helpless to do anything to save him. It just happens that Mike's leg got tangled in a rope and he ends up in the water with a bunch of hungry sharks about to have him for lunch. Pipes now recovered from the beating he got from Mike jumps into the shark infested water and rescues him only after he goes into shock and later dies of his injuries. It's in the last moments of his life that Mike finally realizes just what a jerk he was telling him and Quita how sorry he was for all the trouble he caused for them. A fitting ending for a man who never knew who his true friends were until he faced death straight in the eye and was saved by the very one -Pipes- he just moments before tried to murdered.
Finally giving into Mike and marrying him it soon turns out that Mike's good friend, who saved Mike from bring eaten alive by sharks, All-American looking Pipes Boley,Richard "Dick" Arlen,gets Quita's attention and despite Pipes doing his best to avoid it the two fall in love with each other. It's later that Mike recovering from a drunken binge finds both Pipes and Quita in each other arms that he plans to do both lovers in before his next planned, with Quita joining in,fishing trip!
****SPOILERS****Mad and drunk with revenge Mike attacks and knocks out Pipes and plans to feed him to the sharks with the crewmen on his boat locked up in their cabins helpless to do anything to save him. It just happens that Mike's leg got tangled in a rope and he ends up in the water with a bunch of hungry sharks about to have him for lunch. Pipes now recovered from the beating he got from Mike jumps into the shark infested water and rescues him only after he goes into shock and later dies of his injuries. It's in the last moments of his life that Mike finally realizes just what a jerk he was telling him and Quita how sorry he was for all the trouble he caused for them. A fitting ending for a man who never knew who his true friends were until he faced death straight in the eye and was saved by the very one -Pipes- he just moments before tried to murdered.