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Fish from Hell (Part II) (1945)

1945 · Ephemeral film · 13 min

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Deep-sea fishing adventure.

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Running time
13 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
Fishfrom1945_2

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★★★★★ · Best fish story ever!!! · bagelbutt · 2008-04-17

Best action packed adventure I've ever seen!! This movie was filmed back when the men were iron and the ships were wood, no room for p.c. cry babies here!!!!!!

★★★★★ · Best movie I've ever seen · Mc. Tugly · 2007-05-22

The epic fight as the crew member tries to escape the octopus in the beginning is outdone later by the breathtaking duel between the swordfish and the whale! This inspires me to go whaling.

★★★ · Painfully politically incorrect. · Spuzz · 2003-05-15

Definitely not a how-to for sport fishing, as a lot of this film seems to rely on 'revenge fishing', this is, I hope, an example of fishing from the past and not representative of today. We start on the boat, where the narrator notices some porpoises following them, "Definitely not food fish!" Thank goodness! "But can be used for a lot of other things, like leather!" Soon, they're fishing for tuna, and a shark joins in for the hunt for tuna. After they catch the tuna, (which attained a major laceration from the shark) the fishermen take out their frustration and get the shark as well (using a…

★★★ · Hazardous Material · Whitetip · 2004-11-10

When I see this, I feel sick. But I get sick whenever killing is sold as sport. To underline this, the movie could be very helpful, serving as a bad example - but only if it is presented with the right introduction. Something like: "You are about to watch stupidity at it`s finest..." or "Don´t try this on your planet..."

★ · The Inhumanity of Man · HappyVoice · 2007-04-10

These movie is from the days when man saw enemies everywhere he looked, and in this case, his enemies were the denizens of the ocean. The narrator was obviously given a script which he reads quite well with feigned emotion, but his declared hatred of sea-dwelling creatures is clearly nonsense that he himself does not believe. Bringing us up to the twenty-first century, we love all animals, including those living in the water, much more than we used to, but much of that is simply because we hate to see them disappear through overfishing and human greed for profit. We seem to have moved some…

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