Tiger Shark

[This is a contribution to the Early Hawks Blog-a-thon hosted right here at Only The Cinema. It will run from January 12 to January 23, 2009.]

Howard Hawks' Tiger Shark is an odd and oddly fun fishing drama (now there's a genre that never quite took off) about two commercial fisherman buddies and the woman who comes between them. Mike Mascarenhas (Edward G. Robinson) is the self-declared "