Excellent score!


However...this movie isn't a big hit at all, but at least it contains a brilliant soundtrack by Jerome Moross - maybe one of the most underrated composers in movie business...he should have made much more compositions for Hollywood...
The title theme reminded me of some Latin american melody from West Side Story's Big Dance (where Tony meets Maria first).

It's quite funny to see a B or less quality picture like this, but hear such a score simultaneously.:-)

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This was better than a B movie. But yes, Moross's score, like all of his others, was superb.

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Yes, the score was similar to West Side Story, especially for the Sharks (no pun intended for this film, The Sharkfighters) and composer Jerome Moross did an effective job with the suspenseful music he created for the early parts of the film when Rafael Campos is in the water as the shark nears him. I heard strains of the *Jaws* theme. The score was probably the best part of this film.

Moross was certainly underrated, though he did get nominated 2 years later for "an Academy Award for his lush, sweeping score of The Big Country (1958)" -- see http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606108/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm


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The Sharkfighters was a couple of decades before Jaws. What you heard was strains of The Sharkfighters music when you saw Jaws.

Moross should have won the Oscar for The Big Country, but the voters are not famous for their taste and wisdom.

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