Orca
Terror just beneath the surface.
Country
Production
Budget
$17 500 000
Box office
$14 717 854
Director
Actors
Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn, Robert Carradine, Scott Walker, Peter Hooten, Wayne Heffley, Vincent Gentile
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Ted Moore
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
John Bloom, Ralph E. Winters, Marion Rothman
Whole Team (39)
Whole Team (39)
Short description
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
What's left behind the scenes
- The acting debut film of Bo Derek.
- The source material for this story is Arthur Herzog's novel "Death Among the Icebergs" ("Orca"), first published in 1977.
- Animal rights activists blocked trucks delivering animatronic whales to the set, believing they contained real whales.
- The film was released in the same year that the novel it was based on was published.
- "Orca" (meaning killer whale, the film's original title) was the name of the schooner that hunted the shark in the 1975 film 'Jaws'.
- Filming took place in Newfoundland during the fishing season. Scenes in the northernmost waters of Labrador were filmed on specially constructed sets in Malta.
- In 1982, a wide release of the film was organized in the USSR, during which it was viewed by 33 million viewers.
- The film featured two film sex symbols – Bo Derek and Charlotte Rampling.
- This was the only film written by Luciano Vincenzoni.
- The word “Orca” comes from classical Latin, the zoological term “Orca orcinus” (as stated in the film), or, more accurately, it is called “Orcinus orca.” The phrase “Orca orcinus,” according to the film, translates to English as “bringer of death.”
- The original title of the film, “Orca,” is the Latin name for the killer whale (Orcinus orca).
- Although this was the first film released featuring Bo Derek, her actual debut was in 'Fantasia' (1981), which was filmed in 1973 but not released until 1981.
- One of a cycle of films from the 1970s and 1980s that were made after the box office success of 'Jaws' (1975). The films include three sequels to the film: 'Jaws 2' (1978), 'Jaws 3' (1983), and 'Jaws 4: The Revenge' (1987), as well as 'Death Among Icebergs' (1977), 'Piranha' (1978), 'Tentacles' (1977), 'Fish Killer' (1979), 'Barracuda' (1978), 'Tiger Shark' (1977), 'Blood Beach' (1980), 'Piranha 2: The Spawning' (1981), 'Last Shark' (1981), 'From the Depths' (1979), 'Creatures from the Abyss' (1980), 'Island of Fish-Men' (1979), 'Monster Shark' (1984), and 'Mako: Jaws of Death' (1976).
- Trained killer whales from the San Francisco aquarium were used to create the film, which added exceptional spectacle to it. But in addition to this, models of the animals were made from artificial rubber, which looked so natural that animal rights activists initially tried to obstruct the movement of vehicles carrying the dummies. The shark featured at the beginning of the film was caught by renowned fisherman Ron Taylor.
- Towards the end of the film, although not visible, the whale actually dies, swimming under the Arctic ice.
- Richard Harris, who was forty-six years old at the time of filming, performed the stunts himself.
- Richard Harris turned down the opportunity to work with Ingmar Bergman on 'The Serpent's Egg' (1977) to make this film. It was a decision he regretted many years later.
- The literal translation of the original title is 'Killer Whale, Orca'.
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